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Subject(s)

• Human body—Religious aspects—Comparative studies [Browse]

Editor

• Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg [Browse]
• Pati, George [Browse]

Series

Routledge Handbooks in Religion [More in this series]

Summary note

"The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment. Featuring multidisciplinary approaches and methodologies from the humanities and the social sciences, it addresses the body and embodied religiosity in theological, ethical, and cultural contexts. Comprised of thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into four parts: Theology and Embodied Religiosity Gender, Sexuality, and Body Regulations Ritual and Performance Religion, Healing, and the Future of the Body Each part examines central issues, debates, and problems in relation to global belief systems, including: embodiments of love; transfiguration; the secular body; disability; body language; maternal bodies; embodied emotions; celibacy; ecology and the body; reshaping the corporal body; initiation rites; physiology; Tantra; Reiki practice; religious experience; technological body modifications; and ethics and the body. Providing a breadth of rich and innovative research, it is a must-read for students and scholars in religious studies, theology, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, psychology, history, cultural and gender studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Source of description

Description based on print version record.

Contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I Theology and Embodied Religiosity
• 1 Subtle Bodies and Ecology: Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and New Materialism
• 2 Affect and Embodied Emotions
• 3 Embodiments of Love in Jewish Sources
• 4 Apophatic Theophanies: Incarnational Knowledge of God in Early Eastern Christianity
• 5 Disability and Embodied Theology
• 6 "We Shall Do and We Shall Understand": Embodied Theology in Modern Judaism
• 7 Transfiguration
• 8 The Ruse of Body Language among Muslim Traditionists
• 9 Avoidance, Aversion, and Intellectualization: Embodied Brokenness in White Christianity
• 10 Ecological Theology and the Body
• Part II Gender, Sexuality, and Body Regulations
• 11 Bodies of Becoming: The Regulation of Religion and Gender and the Subjectivation of the Secular Body
• 12 Maternal Bodies and Religions
• 13 Semen and the Self in a Teaching and Prayer
• 14 "I Too Desired a Child": Sufi Hagiography, Ibn Khafif, and the Problem of Celibacy
• 15 Corporeal Conscientization: Heralding the Good News of Black Women's Bodies
• 16 Islamic Shi'i Ethics and the Biopolitics of the Maternal Body
• Part III Ritual and Performance
• 17 Tantric Bodies, AI Immortality, and a Yogurt Model of Self
• 18 Holy Heads: Re­Membering John the Baptist and Husayn in Early Christian and Islamic Pilgrimage
• 19 Mothers in the Temple: Motherhood, Filial Piety, and Salvation Rituals in Premodern Japanese Buddhism
• 20 Body, Community, Cosmos: A Śaiva Siddhānta Rite of Initiation
• 21 (In)Conspicuous Consumption: Food, the Child Body, and Inversion of Hard­Core Rituals in Hindu Tantras
• 22 The Buddhist Body in a Pill: Notes Towards a Material History of Tantra in Tibet
• 23 Performing Kṛṣṇa's Body in Kerala
• 24 Sikh Langar: Tasting the Transcendent.
• Part IV Religion, Healing, and the Future of the Body
• 25 Reiki Practice and the Body as Mediator for Religiosity
• 26 Further Explorations of/in Daoist Embodiment
• 27 Spiritual Contraptions: Religious Experience and Psychiatrized Bodies in the Nineteenth Century
• 28 The Thai Body: Understanding the Principles of Medicine, Physiology, and the Massage Tradition through Inscriptions, Texts, and the Material Culture of Wat Phō
• 29 Religion, Body, Excreta
• 30 The Future Body: Religious Approaches to Advanced Technological Body Modifications
• Index.

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ISBN

• 1-000-83466-2
• 1-00-305850-7
• 1-003-05850-7
• 1-000-83461-1

OCLC

1357015372

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