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The Routledge handbook of religion and the body / edited by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg and George Pati.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge handbooks
- Routledge handbooks in religion
- Routledge handbooks.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Religious aspects--Comparative studies.
- Human body.
- Human body--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- Comparative studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair of Religion andFounding Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Rollins College, Florida. George Pati is Surjit S. Patheja Endowed Chair in World Religions and Ethics and Professor of South Asian Religions and Cultures, Department ofPhilosophy and Theologyat Valparaiso University, Indiana.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis Group platform, viewed June 12, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781000834611
- 1000834611
- 9781000834666
- 1000834662
- 9781003058502
- 1003058507
- OCLC:
- 1357147717
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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