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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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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 Siddh¿nta 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 K¿¿¿a'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 ¿¿¿ 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 Ph¿
Saran Suebsantiwongse 29. Religion, Body, Excreta
Sarah Nahar 30. The Future Body: Religious Approaches to Advanced Technological Body-Modifications
Michael Caligiuri. Index
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg is George D. and Harriet W. Cornell Endowed Chair of Religion and Founding 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 of Philosophy and Theology at Valparaiso University, Indiana.
