Body and religion are closely linked. The human body, which is the most direct level of human experience, is used to express and project religious ideas. For example, ablutions, head coverings, gender roles and body modifications are often religiously charged and integrated into a religious frame of reference. Deities are presented with human bodies (or not) and the relationship between body and spirit is illuminated. This volume brings together contributions from a conference organised by the Münster Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" and brings together various disciplines from the humanities and social sciences that address the topic from a global and time-spanning perspective. With contributions byBotaina Azouaghe | Kurt-Otto Bayertz | Wolfram Drews | Nikolas Funke | Ulla Kreilinger | Eva-Bettina Krems | Clemens Leonhard | Achim Lichtenberger | Angelika Lohwasser | Christoph Markschies | Ines Michalowski | Manuel Pachurka | Perry Schmidt-Leukel | Rüdiger Schmitt | Romedio Schmitz-Esser | Dorothea Schulz | Dina Serova | Holger Strutwolf | Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf | Karin Westerwelle
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Copyright year
2025
ISBN-Print
978-3-98740-179-4
ISBN-Online
978-3-98740-180-0
Publisher
Ergon, Baden-Baden
Series
Religion und Politik
Volume
23
Language
English
Pages
442
Product type
Edited Book
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Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis No access Pages 1 - 10
The Body in Religion: Images, Practices and the “Somatic Turn”. An Introduction No access Pages 11 - 22 Achim Lichtenberger, Angelika Lohwasser, Holger Strutwolf
The Image of the Body’s Unity in Christianity (Paul) and Buddhism (Śāntideva) No access Pages 25 - 42 Perry Schmidt-Leukel
Theology of the Upright Posture No access Pages 43 - 62 Kurt Bayertz
Eurymedon Eimi – The River God’s Epiphany No access Pages 63 - 80 Achim Lichtenberger
Lion – God – King No access Pages 81 - 92 Angelika Lohwasser
God and Body – Some Unfamiliar Perspectives from the Jewish-Christian Tradition No access Pages 95 - 110 Christoph Markschies
Body Images and Corporal Practices as Objects of Interreligious Polemics in Early Medieval al-Andalus No access Pages 111 - 130 Wolfram Drews
Religious Narratives and Their Transformation: The Case of the Queen of Sheba in the Qur’ān and Her Physical Transformation Through Exegesis No access Pages 131 - 146 Botaina Azouaghe
The Symbolism of the Body in Ancient Greece No access Pages 149 - 168 Ulla Kreilinger
Secularity in the Swimming Pool. Attitudes towards Own and Others’ Body Practices No access Pages 169 - 198 Ines Michalowski
Gustave Flaubert, Voyage en Orient. Experience and Depiction of the Body No access Pages 199 - 234 Karin Westerwelle
Religious Asceticism from a Cultural-Sociological Perspective No access Pages 237 - 246 Manuel Pachurka
Materials and Mediations of ‘Spiritual Power’. Islamic Renewal and ‘Social Media’ in (and Beyond) Urban Mali No access Pages 247 - 264 Dorothea E. Schulz
Bodies of Saints and Bodies of Princes in the17th Century: Votive Offerings in Altötting and Votive Images in Munich No access Pages 265 - 288
Martina Wagner-Egelhaaf Religious Bodies in Contemporary German Literature No access Pages 289 - 302 Eva-Bettina Krems
The Enchanted Body: Religion, Medical and Apotropaic Magic in Early Modernity No access Pages 305 - 322 Nikolas Funke
Fragmented Bodies in Rituals in Middle Kingdom Egypt: The Embalmers’ Cache from TT 315, Thebes No access Pages 323 - 358 Dina Serova
Body and Blood of Christ: Theological Solutions to Practical Problems, and Practical Solutions to Theological Problems No access Pages 359 - 384 Clemens Leonhard
Images and Practices of the Dead Body – A Cultural-Anthropological Search for Clues No access Pages 387 - 406 Romedio Schmitz-Esser
Self-Mutilation and Self-Laceration and their Iconographic Representation in the Levant with Special Regard to Iron Age Coroplastic Art No access Pages 407 - 422 Rüdiger Schmitt
Body and Soul – Human Nature and Resurrection in Early Christianity No access Pages 423 - 436 Holger Strutwolf
Contributors No access Pages 437 - 442
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