Refiguring the body : embodiment in South Asian religions / edited by Barbara A. Holdrege and Karen Pechilis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holdrege, Barbara A., 1950- editor.

Pechilis, Karen, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body--Religious aspects.

Human body.

Buddhism--South Asia.

Buddhism.

Hinduism--South Asia.

Hinduism.

South Asia--Religion.

South Asia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2017.

Summary:

Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engage prevailing theories of the body in the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social theory, and feminist and gender studies. At the same time, they recognize the limitations of applying Western theoretical models as the default epistemological framework for understanding notions of embodiment that derive from non-Western cultures. Divided into three sections, this collection of essays explores material bodies, embodied selves, and perfected forms of embodiment; divine bodies and devotional bodies; and gendered logics defining male and female bodies. The contributors seek to establish theory parity in scholarly investigations and to re-figure body theories by taking seriously the contributions of South Asian discourses to theorizing the body.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438463162

1438463162