Religion and the Body

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1. Introduction: religion and the body Sarah Coakley Part I. Contemporary Western Perspectives: Secularism and the Body: 2. The body in Western society: social theory and its perspectives Bryan S. Turner 3. Remarks on the anthropology of the body Talal Asad 4. The soul's successor: philosophy and the 'body' Mary Midgley Part II.The Western Religious Inheritance: Judaism and Christianity on the Body: 5. The body in Jewish worship: three rituals examined Louis Jacobs 6. 'My helper and my enemy': the body in Greek Christianity Kallistos Ware 7. The body in Western Catholic Christianity Andrew Louth 8. The image of the body in the formative phases of the Protestant Reformation David Tripp Part III. Beyond the West: Eastern Religious Traditions and the Body: 9. Zoroastrianism and the body Alan Williams 10. Medical and mythical constructions of the body in Hindu texts Wendy Doniger 11. The body in Theravada Buddhist monasticism Steven Collins 12. Some Mahayana Buddhist perspectives on the body Paul Williams 13. The Taoist body and cosmic prayer Michael Saso 14. Perceptions of the body in Japanese religion Michael Pye 15. 'I take the dress off the body': Eros in Sufi literature and life Annemarie Schimmel 16. The body in Sikh tradition Eleanor Nesbitt.

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