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Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies

Transformational Embodiment in Asian Religions: Subtle Bodies, Spatial Bodies

Pati, George
Zubko, Katherine C.

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Religion

PhilosophyComparative ReligionGeneral Eastern Religions

ISBN10: 0367375559
ISBN13: 9780367375553
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Oct 30 2019
Pages: 250
Weight: 1.22
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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