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Subject(s)

• Human body—Religious aspects—Comparative studies [Browse]
• Ritual—Study and teaching [Browse]
• Sex—Religious aspects [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.

Contents

• Subtle Bodies and Ecology: Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and New Materialism / Jay Johnston
• Affect and Embodied Emotions / Adam Beyt
• Embodiments of Love in Jewish Sources / Yudit Kornberg Greenberg
• Apophatic Theophanies: Incarnational Knowledge of God in Early Eastern Christianity / Lisa D. Mangans Driver
• Disability and Embodied Theology / Courtney Wilder
• "We Shall Do and We Shall Understand": Embodied Theology in Modern Judaism / Sam S. B. Shonkoff
• Transfiguration / Marcio Vilar
• The Ruse of Body Language among Muslim Traditionists / Ossama A. S. Abdelgawwad
• Avoidance, Aversion, and Intellectualization: Embodied Brokenness in White Christianity / Marcia W. Mount Shoop
• Ecological Theology and the Body / Deborah Guess
• Bodies of Becoming: The Regulation of Religion and Gender and the Subjectivation of the Secular Body / Zaheeda P. Alibhai
• Maternal Bodies and Religions / Florence Pasche Guignard
• Semen and the Self in a Teaching and Prayer / Justin Jaron Lewis
• "I Too Desired a Child": Sufi Hagiography, Ibn Khafifi and the Problem of Celibacy / Matthew R. Hotham
• Corporeal Conscientization: Heralding the Good News of Black Women's Bodies / Courtney Bryant
• Islamic Shi'i Ethics and the Biopolitics of the Maternal Body / Ladan Rahbari
• Tantric Bodies, AI Immortality, and a Yogurt Model of Self / Loriliai Biernacki
• Holy Heads: Re-Membering John the Baptist and Husayn in Early Christian and Islamic Pilgrimage / Mary Thurlkill
• Mothers in the Temple: Motherhood, Filial Piety, and Salvation Rituals in Premodern Japanese Buddhism / Marta Sanvido
• Body, Community, Cosmos: A Śaiva Siddhānta Rite of Initiation / Adam Newman
• (In)Conspicuous Consumption: Food, the Child Body, and Inversion of Hard-Core Rituals in Hindu Tantras / Sundari Johansen Hurwitt
• The Buddhist Body in a Pill: Notes Towards a Material History of Tantra in Tibet / James Gentry
• Performing Kṛ̣ṣṇa's Body in Kerala / George Pati
• Sikh Langar: Tasting the Transcendent / Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh
• Reiki Practice and the Body as Mediator for Religiosity / Dori-Michelle Beeler, Jojan L. Jonker
• Further Explorations of/in Daoist Embodiment / Louis Komjathy
• Spiritual Contraptions: Religious Experience and Psychiatrized Bodies in the Nineteenth Century / Kyle Derkson
• The Thai Body: Understanding the Principles of Medicine, Physiology, and the Massage Tradition through Inscriptions, Texts, and the Material Culture of Wat Phō / Saran Suebsantiwongse
• Religion, Body, Excreta / Sarah Nahar
• The Future Body: Religious Approaches to Advanced Technological Body Modifications / Michael Caligiuri.

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Other title(s)

Handbook of religion and the body

ISBN

• 9780367528157 ((hardcover))
• 0367528150 ((hardcover))
• 9780367528133 ((paperback))
• 0367528134 ((paperback))

LCCN

2022039167

OCLC

1341395297

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