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Description: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 thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into four parts:Theology and Embodied ReligiosityGender, Sexuality, and Body RegulationsRitual and PerformanceReligion, 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, cultural and gender studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body. To get started finding The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: 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 thirty chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into four parts:Theology and Embodied ReligiosityGender, Sexuality, and Body RegulationsRitual and PerformanceReligion, 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, cultural and gender studies.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body. To get started finding The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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