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Religion and the body / edited by Sarah Coakley.

Contributor(s): Coakley, Sarah, 1951-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in religious traditions: 8.Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, s2000Edition: [New edition]Description: xvii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0521783860; 0521366690Subject(s): Human body -- Religious aspectsBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Religion and the body / Sarah Coakley -- The body in Western society: social theory and its perspectives / Bryan S. Turner -- Remarks on the anthropology of the body / Talal Asad -- The soul's successors: philosophy and the body / Mary Midgley -- The body in Jewish worship: three rituals examined / Louis Jacobs -- My helper and my enemy: the body in Greek Christianity / Kallistos Ware -- The body in Western Catholic Christianity / Andrew Louth -- The image of the body in the formative phases of the Protestant Reformation / David Tripp -- Zoroastrianism and the body / Alan Williams -- Medical and mythical constructions of the body in Hindu texts / Wendy Doniger -- The body in Theravāda Buddhist monasticism / Steven Collins -- Some Mahāyāna Buddhist perspectives on the body / Paul Williams -- The Taoist body and cosmic prayer / Michael Saso -- Perceptions of the body in Japanese religion / Michael Pye -- I take off the dress of the body: Eros in Sufi literature and life / Annemarie Schimmel -- The body in Sikh tradition / Eleanor Nesbitt.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL604 .B64 R44 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902178694

Previous edition: 1997.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Religion and the body / Sarah Coakley -- The body in Western society: social theory and its perspectives / Bryan S. Turner -- Remarks on the anthropology of the body / Talal Asad -- The soul's successors: philosophy and the body / Mary Midgley -- The body in Jewish worship: three rituals examined / Louis Jacobs -- My helper and my enemy: the body in Greek Christianity / Kallistos Ware -- The body in Western Catholic Christianity / Andrew Louth -- The image of the body in the formative phases of the Protestant Reformation / David Tripp -- Zoroastrianism and the body / Alan Williams -- Medical and mythical constructions of the body in Hindu texts / Wendy Doniger -- The body in Theravāda Buddhist monasticism / Steven Collins -- Some Mahāyāna Buddhist perspectives on the body / Paul Williams -- The Taoist body and cosmic prayer / Michael Saso -- Perceptions of the body in Japanese religion / Michael Pye -- I take off the dress of the body: Eros in Sufi literature and life / Annemarie Schimmel -- The body in Sikh tradition / Eleanor Nesbitt.

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