People of the Body - Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective

By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies - for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth- this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. The project of re-membering the Jewish body has both historical and constructive motivations. As a constructive project, this book describes, renews, and participates in the complex and ongoing modern discussion about the nature of Jewish bodies and the place of bodies in Judaism.

About the author

Howard Eilberg-Schwartz is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Savage in Judaism: An Anthology of Israelite Religion and Ancient Judaism (winner of a 1990 American Academy Award for Academic Excellence) as well as The Human Will in Judaism.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Eilberg-Schwartz
• Assisted by: Howard Eilberg-Schwartz (Editor)
• Publisher: SUNY Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9780791411704
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1170-4
• No. of pages: 404
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 653 g
• Series: Suny Series, the Body in Cultu; Suny Series, the Body in Cultu
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories