ABSTRACT
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 30 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, and cultural and gender studies.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|148 pages
Theology and Embodied Religiosity
chapter 4|17 pages
Apophatic Theophanies
chapter 9|14 pages
Avoidance, Aversion, and Intellectualization
part II|82 pages
Gender, Sexuality, and Body Regulations
chapter 11|12 pages
Bodies of Becoming
chapter 14|15 pages
“I Too Desired a Child”
part III|117 pages
Ritual and Performance
chapter 18|13 pages
Holy Heads
chapter 19|18 pages
Mothers in the Temple
chapter 21|15 pages
(In)Conspicuous Consumption
part IV|92 pages
Religion, Healing, and the Future of the Body