Sarah Coakley (ed.)Religion and the Body
Herausgeber: Coakley, Sarah; Collins, Steven; Clayton, John
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.
