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• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Catholic Church
• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Early works to 1800
• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Church
• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Methodist Episcopal Church
• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Rites and ceremonies
• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Sermons
• Dance -- Religious aspects -- Shinto
• Dance -- Japan -- Religious aspects

• Dancing (in religion, folk-lore, etc.)

• Between Dancing and Writing: The Practice of Religious Studies (New York: Fordham University Press, 2004), by Kimerer L. LaMothe (PDF with commentary at bepress.com)
• An Account of the Trial of Social Dance, by George Davis (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancers and Dancing: A Calm and Rational View of the Dancing Question, by J. M. Hubbert (HTML and page images at LOC)
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (Chicago: The Henry Publishing Co., c1892), by Thomas A. Faulkner
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• From the Ball-Room to Hell (c1894), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the Ball-Room to Hell (illustrated edition; ca. 1920), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• May Christians Dance?, by James H. Brookes (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Modern Dances, by Luigi Sartori (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A treatise against dicing, dancing, plays, and interludes. With other idle pastimes. (Reprinted from the Shakespeare society, 1843), by John Northbrooke and John Payne Collier (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ban of the Bori; demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa (Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd., 1914), by A. J. N. Tremearne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Istorii͡a tant͡sev. (S.-Peterburg, 1913), by S N Khudekov (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dancing as an amusement for Christians. A sermon, delivered in the Brainerd Presbyterian church, New-York, Feb. 14, 1847, and repeated, by request, Feb. 28. (Printed by Leavitt, Trow & company, 1847), by Asa D. Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Srpske narodne igre (Štampano u Drž. štampariji Kraljevine Sbrije, 1907), by Tihomir R. Đorđević (page images at HathiTrust)
• The dance of modern society. : (Funk & Wagnalls, 1884), by William Cleaver Wilkinson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Opfertanz des ägyptischen Königs (1912), by Hermann Kees (page images at HathiTrust)
• Amusements in the light of reason, history, and revelation. (Walden and Stowe;, 1882), by Samuel Milton Vernon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tänze der naturvölker; ein deutungsversuch primitiver tanzkulte und kultgebräuche (A. Fürstner, 1921), by Jaap Kool and G. O. Roesner (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The modern pleasure dance is it an innocent and an appropriate amusement? : outline of a sermon (s.n.], 1859), by George Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tanz und Theaterbesuch. Je zwei Vorträge hierüber, in vier dazu veranstalteten Erbauungsstunden gehalten... (Lutherischer Concordia Verlag, 1885), by C. F. W. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the incompatibility of theater-going and dancing with membership in the Christian church an address of the clergy of the Convocation of the Valley of Virginia to the people of their respective parishes. (Office of Leighten Publications, 1872), by C. W. Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geder oulom (880-06 Ṿarsha : Buberesh Tursh, 1894., 1894), by ha-Kohen Israel Meir (page images at HathiTrust)
• From the ball-room to hell. (The Henry Publishing Co., 1892), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• De saltationibus Graecorum capita quinque (A. Töpelmann (vormals J. Ricker), 1913), by Kurt Latte (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Dialogo sopra le antiche saltazioni (s.n., in the 1760s), by Pierantonio Gaetani (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gedeʺ olamʺ ([Ḥ. mo. l.], 1888), by ha-Kohen Israel Meir (page images at HathiTrust)

• La danse et les bals (s.n., 1911), by Église catholique. Diocèse de Régina. Évêque (1911-1929 : Mathieu) and O.-E. Mathieu (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Appeal to All Christians, Especially the Members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Against the Practice of Social Dancing, by John G. Jones (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Dancing As a Christian Amusement, by George C. Heckman (HTML and page images at LOC)
• A Discourse on Dancing, Delivered in the Central Presbyterian Church, Cincinnati, by N. L. Rice (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Familiar Dialogues on Dancing, Between a Minister and a Dancer, by John Phillips (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Immorality of Modern Dances, ed. by Beryl and Associates (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Modern Dance and What Shall Take Its Place, by Melvin C. Drumm (HTML and page images at LOC)
• Modern Dancing, In the Light of Scripture and Facts, by William W. Gardner (HTML and page images at LOC)
• [Christian pamphlets. Vol. 5]. (s.n., 1864), by Charles LeRoy Goodell, Edward P. Goodwin, James Burrill Angell, H. Q. Butterfield, Jacob Chamberlain, Geo. F. Walker, William W. Wheildon, Jonathan Edwards, Addison Ballard, R. V. Dodge, Henry Mills, Ill.) Chicago Theological Seminary. Triennial Convention 1882 : Chicago, Ill.) Chicago Theological Seminary. Triennial Convention 1876 : Chicago, and Massachusetts Bible Society (page images at HathiTrust)
• [Christian pamphlets. Vol. 14]. (s.n., 1859), by Julian M. Sturtevant, Sereno D. Clark, Samuel V. Leech, George Clinton Smith, H. Q. Butterfield, William M. Barbour, Edward Norris Kirk, George F. Magoun, E. W. Borden, T. C. Trowbridge, Samuel Willoughby Duffield, Benjamin Parsons, Norman C. Mallory, Zachary Eddy, A. F. Bourns, Mark Hopkins, J. A. Reed, Samuel Colcord Bartlett, Truman M. Post, Henry Ward Beecher, J. G. Wortley, Martin S. Howard, William T. Dwight, and N.Y.) Union Theological Seminary (New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lure of the dance with Christ at the ball. (The Light, 1916), by Thomas A. Faulkner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tanz und Theaterbesuch : Je zwei freie vorträge hierüber, in vier dazu veranstalteten erbauungsstunden gehalten ... (Lutherischer Concordia-verlag, 1886), by C. F. W. Walther (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dancing (Presbyterian Board of Publication, 1879), by George C. Heckman (page images at HathiTrust)

• Treatise wherein dicing, dauncing, vaine plaies or enterludes with other idle pastimes, etc. commonly used on the Sabboth day, are reprooved, by the authoritie of the worde of God and auncient writers (At London : Imprinted by H. Bynneman, for George Byshop, [1577?]), by John Northbrooke (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Chorotheologon or Two breife but usefull treatises, [part 2: the nature and accidents of mixt dancing] the one touching the office and quality of the ministry of the gospell. The other of the nature and accidents of mixt dancing. In this later, the questions which concern the lawfullnesse or expediency of mixed dancing are professedly handled and resolved. By Joseph Bentham. Sometimes rector of the church of Broughton in Northampton Shire, now pastour of Neather Winchingdon, in the county of Bucks. (London : printed by Tho. Roycroft, for Philemon Stephens, and the Gilded Lyon in Pauls-Church Yard, 1657), by Joseph Bentham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Chorotheologon or Two breife but usefull treatises, [part 1: the ministry of the gospell] [ the one touching the office and quality of the ministry of the gospell. The other of the nature and accidents of mixt dancing. In this later, the questions which concern the lawfullnesse or expediency of mixed dancing are professedly handled and resolved. By Joseph Bentham. Sometimes rector of the church of Broughton in Northampton Shire, now pastour of Neather Winchingdon, in the county of Bucks. (London : printed by Tho. Roycroft, for Philemon Stephens, and the Gilded Lyon in Pauls-Church Yard, 1657), by Joseph Bentham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Conclusions vpon dances, both of this age, and of the olde. Newly composed and set forth, by an out-landish doctor (London : Printed [by N. Okes and W. White] for Iohn Orphinstrange, and are to be solde at his shop neere Holborne Bridge, 1607), by John Lowin (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• Social Dancing Inconsistent with a Christian Profession and Baptismal Vows, by B. M. Palmer (HTML and page images at LOC)
• The Nature and Tendency of Balls, by Jacob Ide (HTML and page images at LOC)

• A dialogue agaynst light, lewde, and lasciuious dauncing wherin are refuted all those reasons, which the common people vse to bring in defence thereof. Compiled and made by Christopher Fetherston. (Imprinted at London : By Thomas Dawson, 1582), by Christopher Fetherston (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• To the musicioners, the harpers, the minstrels, the singers, the dancers, the persecutors; from one who loved dancing and musick as his life, which being parted with, and the light being come, which was before these things, in which they are all seen, and from it is declared, the ground, foundation, beginning, and father, and children, and compass, and end, and the effects of all the harpers, mucisioners [sic], singers and dancers: who may reade what I have learned, who have tryed their wayes, and also searched into the things of God, and declare this according to Scripture, and have found the joy which man cannot take away, in which I rejoyce for ever, because the marriage of the Lamb is come. (London, : [s.n.], printed in the 11th moneth, 1658), by Humphrey Smith (HTML at EEBO TCP)

• The evils of the modern pleasure dance a sermon preached by the Rev. Richard Hobbs, Colborne Street Methodist Church, Brantford, Sunday evening, March 1st, 1896. (s.n., 1904), by Richard Hobbs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dancing ([Nashville, Tenn.] : [Nashville Female Academy], [1858], 1858), by Tenn.) Nashville Female Academy (Nashville and C. D. Elliott (page images at HathiTrust)

• A Solemn Warning to Dancers (ca. 1830), by N. Bangs and J. Emory (page images with commentary at loc.gov)

• The sacred dance: a study in comparative folklore (The Macmillan company, 1923), by W. O. E. Oesterley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der opfertanz des ägyptischen königs (J.C. Hinrichs, 1912), by Hermann Kees (page images at HathiTrust)

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