The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body

ISBN-13: 9780367528157 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 608 str.

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Comprised of thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, this handbook is the first comprehensive volume to feature multireligious cross-cultural perspectives on the body and embodiment, and is a must-read for students and scholars in religious studies, philosophy, anthropology, cultural and gender studies.

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Introduction Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and George Pati  Part I. Theology and Embodied Religiosity  1. Subtle Bodies and Ecology: Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and New Materialism Jay Johnston  2. Affect and Embodied Emotions Adam Beyt  3. Embodiments of Love in Jewish Sources Yudit Kornberg Greenberg  4. Apophatic Theophanies: Incarnational Knowledge of God in Early Eastern Christianity Lisa D. Maugans Driver  5. Disability and Embodied Theology Courtney Wilder  6. ‘We Shall Do and We Shall Understand’: Embodied Theology in Modern Judaism Sam S. B. Shonkoff  7. Transfiguration Márcio Vilar  8. The Ruse of Body Language among Muslim Traditionists Ossama Abdelgawwad  9. Avoidance, Aversion, and Intellectualization: Embodied Brokenness in White Christianity Marcia Mount Shoop  10. Ecological Theology and the Body Deborah Guess  Part II. Gender, Sexuality, and Body Regulations  11. Bodies of Becoming: The Regulation of Religion and Gender and the Subjectivation of the Secular Body Zaheeda P. Alibhai  12. Maternal Bodies and Religions Florence Pasche Guignard  13. Semen and the Self in a Teaching and Prayer Justin Jaron Lewis  14. "I Too Desired a Child": Sufi Hagiography, Ibn Khafif, and the Problem of Celibacy Matthew R. Hotham  15. Corporeal Conscientization: Heralding the Good News of Black Women’s Bodies Courtney Bryant  16. Islamic Shi’i Ethics and the Biopolitics of the Maternal Body Ladan Rahbari  Part III. Ritual and Performance  17. Tantric Bodies, AI Immortality, and a Yogurt Model of Self Loriliai Biernacki  18. Holy Heads: Re-Membering John the Baptist and Husayn in Early Christian and Islamic Pilgrimage Mary Thurlkill  19. Mothers in the Temple: Motherhood, Filial Piety, And Salvation Rituals In Premodern Japanese Buddhism Marta Sanvido  20. Body, Community, Cosmos: A Sìaiva Siddhānta Rite of Initiation Adam Newman  21. (In-)Conspicuous Consumption: Food, the Child Body, and Inversion of Hardcore Rituals in Hindu Tantras Sundari Johansen Hurwitt  22. The Buddhist Body in a Pill: Notes Toward a Material History of Tantra in Tibet James Gentry  23. Performing Kṛṣṇa’s Body in Kerala George Pati  24. Sikh Langar: Tasting the Transcendent Nikky-Guninder Kaur Singh  Part IV. Religion, Healing, and the Future of the Body  25. Reiki Practice and the Body as Mediator for Religiosity Dori-Michelle Beeler and Jojan L. Jonker  26. Further Explorations of/in Daoist Embodiment Louis Komjathy 康思奇  27. Spiritual Contraptions: Religious Experience and Psychiatrized Bodies in the Nineteenth Century Kyle Derkson  28. 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  29. Religion, Body, Excreta Sarah Nahar  30. The Future Body: Religious Approaches to Advanced Technological Body-Modifications Michael Caligiuri.  Index