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.
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.
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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 Mįrcio 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 Womens Bodies Courtney Bryant
16. Islamic
Shii 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 Sģaiva
Siddhnta 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 Kas 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
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.
