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Written by leading social scientists working in and across a
variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume
explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the
body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting
body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race,
sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other
contexts, the book’s chapters call into question
taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and
the body begin and end. Encouraging reflection and opening new
perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic
mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the
literature on the body.
This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist
perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production,
experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion. Scholars from the
US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using
ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical
theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes
in the study of religion – from identity, discourse and power to
ritual, emotion, and embodiment. Authors examine dynamic
intersections of race, gender, history, and the present within the
religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism,
as well as among the non-religious. Cutting boldly across religious
traditions and paradigms, the book investigates areas of harmony
and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a
richer understanding of the meanings of religion.
Written by leading social scientists working in and across a
variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume
explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the
body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society. Interpreting
body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race,
sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other
contexts, the book’s chapters call into question
taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and
the body begin and end. Encouraging reflection and opening new
perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic
mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the
literature on the body.
This edited collection harnesses a diversity of interpretivist
perspectives to provide a panoramic view of the production,
experiences, contexts, and meanings of religion. Scholars from the
US, South Asia and Europe explore religious phenomena using
ethnographic, comparative historical, psychosocial, and critical
theoretical approaches. Each chapter addresses foundational themes
in the study of religion - from identity, discourse and power to
ritual, emotion, and embodiment. Authors examine dynamic
intersections of race, gender, history, and the present within the
religious traditions of Christianity, Islam, Judaism and Buddhism,
as well as among the non-religious. Cutting boldly across religious
traditions and paradigms, the book investigates areas of harmony
and contradiction across different interpretive lenses to achieve a
richer understanding of the meanings of religion.
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