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Encounters of body and soul in contemporary religious practices : anthropological reflections / edited by Anna Fedele and Ruy Llera Blanes.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- EASA series ; v. 16.
- EASA series ; 16
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Religious aspects.
- Human body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (240 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or soul) led to a distinction between non-material, spiritual experiences (i.e., related to the soul) and physical, mechanical experiences (i.e., related to the body). However, recent developments in medical science on the one hand and challenges to universalist conceptions of belief and spirituality on the other have resulted in "body" and "
- Contents:
- pt. I. Bodies and souls in catholic settings
- pt. II. Corporeality, belief and human mobility
- pt. III. New spiritualities challenging the body/soul divide.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613326454
- 9781283326452
- 1283326450
- 9780857452078
- 085745207X
- OCLC:
- 769188692
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