By Barbara A. Holdrege,Karen Pechilis
Refiguring the Body presents a sustained interrogation of different types and versions of the physique grounded within the exact idioms of South Asian religions, quite Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The individuals interact winning theories of the physique within the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social thought, and feminist and gender experiences. whilst, they realize the restrictions of utilizing Western theoretical types because the default epistemological framework for knowing notions of embodiment that derive from non-Western cultures. Divided into 3 sections, this number of essays explores fabric our bodies, embodied selves, and perfected kinds of embodiment; divine our bodies and devotional our bodies; and gendered logics defining female and male our bodies. The individuals search to set up thought parity in scholarly investigations and to re-figure physique theories through taking heavily the contributions of South Asian discourses to theorizing the body.
Barbara A. Holdrege is Professor of spiritual experiences and Chair of the South Asian reports Committee on the college of California, Santa Barbara. Her books comprise Bhakti and Embodiment: Fashioning Divine our bodies and Devotional our bodies in Kṛṣṇạ Bhakti and Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture, additionally released via SUNY Press.
Karen Pechilis is NEH uncommon Professor of Humanities within the Comparative faith division at Drew collage. Her books comprise Interpreting Devotion: The Poetry and Legacy of a feminine Bhakti Saint of India and The Embodiment of Bhakti.
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