Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies (Routledge Studies in Religion)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2020

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

250 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000734942

Related ISBNs:

9780429356056, 9780367375553, 9780367375553

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/21/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction, Health, Mind and Body, Religion and Spirituality, Philosophy

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Edited by:

George Pati

Edited by:

Katherine C. Zubko