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  1. Understanding The Faith/
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Religion and the Body

by Sarah Coakley

  • Paperback
  • 332 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm

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This book aims to highlight the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the 'body', and also, in doing this, to raise to greater consciousness some of the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it. It brings together essays by established experts in the history of religion, the social sciences, and philosophy. Part I is devoted to an analysis of current secularized discourses on the 'body', and to exposing both their anti-religious and their covertly religious content. Parts II and III provide essays on traditional 'Western' and 'Eastern' religious attitudes to the 'body'. Each contributor focuses on some (especially characteristic) devotional practices or relevant texts; each carefully outlines the total context in which a distinctive religious attitude to 'bodiliness' occurs. The result is a rich source for comparative studies of the 'body', and of its relation to society and to the divine.
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  • Author

    Sarah Coakley

  • Book Format

    paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    July 2000

  • Edition

    New ed

  • Editor

    Sarah Coakley (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

  • Weight

    454g

  • Page Count

    332

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.8 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521783866

  • ISBN-10

    0521783860

  • Eden Code

    9823

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