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Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions

Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-1-032-08707-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.2021
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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.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9781032087078
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-1-032-08707-8
  • Verlag: Taylor & Francis
  • Erscheinungstermin: 30.06.2021
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2021
  • Serie: Routledge Studies in Religion
  • Produktform: Kartoniert
  • Gewicht: 381 g
  • Seiten: 268
  • Format (B x H x T): 156 x 234 x 14 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Themen


Autoren/Hrsg.

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List of Figures; Notes on Transliteration; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction-Katherine C. Zubko and George Pati; 1 The Subtle Body of Vital Presence in Contemplative Practices of Abhinavagupta’s Trika Saivism and Longchenpa's Great Perfection-Kerry Martin Skora; 2 Daoist Body-Maps and Meditative Praxis -Louis Komjathy; 3 Yuasa Yasuo’s Contextualization of the Subtle Body: Phenomenology and Practice- Edward Geoffrey; 4 Dismembering Demons: Spatial and Bodily Representations in the Fifteenth-Century Ekalingamahatmya- Adam Newman; 5 Subtle Body: Rethinking the Body’s Subjectivity through Abhinavagupta Body-Loriliai Biernacki; 6 Reprogramming Embodied Experiences in the Maharthamañjari of Mahesvarananda- Sthaneshwar Timalsina; 7 Sensing the Ascent: Embodied Elements of Muhammad’s Heavenly Journey in Nizami Ganjavi’s Treasury of Mysteries-Matthew Hotham; 8 Bodies in Translation: Esoteric Conceptions of the Muslim Body in Early-modern South Asia -Patrick J. D’Silva; 9 The Prostituted Body of War: U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea as a Site of Spiritual Activism- Keun-Joo Christine Pae; 10 Frisky Methods: Subtle Bodies, Epistemological Pluralism and Creative Scholarship- Jay Johnston; 11 Autophagous Bliss: The Obliteration of Spatiality in the Bodily Philosophies of Georges Bataille and the Taittiriya Upanishad.-Matthew Robertson