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OverviewThis 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: George Pati (Valparaiso University, USA) , Katherine C. ZubkoPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.453kg ISBN: 9780367375553ISBN 10: 0367375559 Pages: 250 Publication Date: 30 October 2019 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList 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 Śaivism 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 Ekaliṅgamāhātmya- Adam Newman; 5 Subtle Body: Rethinking the Body’s Subjectivity through Abhinavagupta Body-Loriliai Biernacki; 6 Reprogramming Embodied Experiences in the Mahārthamañjarī of Maheśvarānanda- 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 Taittirīya Upanishad.-Matthew RobertsonReviewsAuthor InformationGeorge 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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