Concilium 2002/ 2 the Body and Religion

Introduction : The body and religion : Regina Ammicht-Quinn and Elsa Tamez -- The perfect body : biomedical utopias : Hille Haker -- The superfluous body : utopias of information and communication technology : Klaus Wiegerling -- The cultural coding of the male and female body : Christina Von Braun -- Re-evaluating the body in eco-feminism : Rosemary Radford Reuther -- The world as God's body : Sally McFague -- Dichotomy or union of soul and body? The origins of the ambivalence of Christianity to the body : Jean-Guy Nadeau -- Corporeality and mysticism : Tina Beattie -- The immobile dance : the body and the Bible in Latin America : Nancy Cardoso Pereira -- Cosmos - church - body : observations on the notion of 'healing pastoral work : Rainer Bucher -- The western understanding of the body as a global perspective : Farideh Akashe-Böhme -- Bodies and gender in Mesoamerican religions : Silvia Marcos -- Embodiment and connexity : an African purview : Gosbert T.M. Byamungu -- Suffering, resisting, healing : an Asian view of the body : Sharon A. Bong -- Mixed-race body, cosmic race : Carmin¿a Navia Velasco

Product details

• Assisted by: Regina Ammicht Quinn (Editor), Regina Ammicht-Quinn (Editor), Elsa Tamez (Editor)
• Publisher: Scm Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2010
• EAN: 9780334030683
• ISBN: 978-0-334-03068-3
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 234 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 231 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity