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Body
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Chinese Daoism
contemplative body practices
Contemplative Practice
Contemporary Society
Corporeal Cartographies
critical race theory in religion
Daode Jing
Daoist Meditation
Early Modern South Asia
embodied epistemologies in Asian traditions
Embodiment
Epistemology
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feminist theology approaches
Hindu
Hinduism
Internal Alchemy
Knowledge Acquisition
Mantiq Al Tayr
Mewar Region
Military Prostitution
Muslim
neuroscience and spirituality
Pati
Persian Sufism
Phenomenology
phenomenology of religion
Pilgrimage Places
Religion
South Asia
Spatial Bodies
Subtle Bodies
Subtle Body
Subtle Body Concepts
Subtle Body Practices
subtle energy systems
Subtle Subjectivity
Sufi Path
Tantra
Tibetan Buddhism
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions
Vice Versa
Yellow Court
Yoga
Young Men
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Product details

  • ISBN 9780367375553
  • Weight: 453g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 30 Oct 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

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.
About
George Pati is Associate Professor of Theology and International Studies and the Surjit S. Patheja Chair in World Religions and Ethics at Valparaiso University, USA. His research interests include religious literature in the Malayalam language, South Asian devotional traditions, the mediation of Hindu devotion through texts, rituals, and performances of Kerala, South India, and the body and religion. He is the author of Religious Devotion and the Poetics of Reform: Love and Liberation in Malayalam Poetry (2019). Katherine C. Zubko is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and NEH Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA. Her research interests include aesthetics, ritual, performance, dance anthropology, and embodied religion in South Asia. She is the author of Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam (2014).