"The Routledge Handbook Of Religion And The Body | Religion

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. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.|The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body | Religion