Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies

This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and spatial bodies, it explores how both types of embodiment are engaged as sites for transformation, transaction and transgression. Collectively bridging ancient and mo...

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Weitere Verfasser: Pati, George (HerausgeberIn), Zubko, Katherine C. (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Milton Routledge 2019
Schriftenreihe:Routledge Studies in Religion Ser
Routledge studies in religion
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Zusammenfassung:This volume examines several theoretical concerns of embodiment in the context of Asian religious practice. Looking at both subtle and spatial bodies, it explores how both types of embodiment are engaged as sites for transformation, transaction and transgression. Collectively bridging ancient and modern conceptualizations of embodiment in religious practice, the book offers a complex mapping of how body is defined. It revisits more traditional, mystical religious systems, including Hindu Tantra and Yoga, Tibetan Buddhism, Bon, Chinese Daoism and Persian Sufism and distinctively juxtaposes these inquiries alongside analyses of racial, gendered, and colonized bodies. Such a multifaceted subject requires a diverse approach, and so perspectives from phenomenology and neuroscience as well as critical race theory and feminist theology are utilised to create more precise analytical tools for the scholarly engagement of embodied religious epistemologies. This a nuanced and interdisciplinary exploration of the myriad issues around bodies within religion. As such it will be a key resource for any scholar of Religious Studies, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, and Gender Studies
Beschreibung:1 online resource (269 pages)
ISBN:9781000734942
1000734943
9780429356056
0429356056
9781000735444
1000735443
9781000735192
1000735192

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