This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it. It brings together essays by established experts in the history of religion, the social sciences, and philosophy. Part I is devoted to an analysis of current secularized discourses on the 'body', and to exposing both their anti-religious and their covertly religious content. ...
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This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it. It brings together essays by established experts in the history of religion, the social sciences, and philosophy. Part I is devoted to an analysis of current secularized discourses on the 'body', and to exposing both their anti-religious and their covertly religious content. Parts II and III provide essays on traditional 'Western' and 'Eastern' religious attitudes to the 'body'. Each contributor focuses on some (especially characteristic) devotional practices or relevant texts; each carefully outlines the total context in which a distinctive religious attitude to 'bodiliness' occurs. The result is a rich source for comparative studies of the 'body', and of its relation to society and to the divine.
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New. A wide-ranging and surprisingly nuanced collection of essays compiled with the intention of exploring not only the beliefs of differing religious attitudes, but also the specific practices within the religions that make the body a ''known'' entity: attitudes to food, prayer, authority, sexual relations, nakedness, pleasure and pain, medicine and healing. Editor Sarah Coakley has done well to organize this volume loosely into three sections, creating both a progression and an interaction between the texts. Part One examines the secular perspective through philosophy and anthropology; Part Two delves into our western religious inheritances from Judaism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and Protestant traditions; Part Three canvasses eastern religions outside the Judeo-Christian experience such as Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism and Sufism. Contributors include (and we're only naming a few): Louis Jacobs, Kallistos Ware, Andrew Louth, David Tripp, Bryan Turner and Paul Williams. In our increasingly syncretic and body-obsessed society, this study is both substantial and accessible--a valuable diagnostic that shows how our '' inability 'to enter into communion with God' may well be 'a function of untaught bodies. '''
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