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.
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.
George Pati is Associate Professor of Theology and International Studies and the Surjit S. Patheja Chair in World Religions and Ethics at Valparaiso University, USA. His research interests include religious literature in the Malayalam language, South Asian devotional traditions, the mediation of Hindu devotion through texts, rituals, and performances of Kerala, South India, and the body and religion. He is the author of Religious Devotion and the Poetics of Reform: Love and Liberation in Malayalam Poetry (2019). Katherine C. Zubko is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and NEH Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at University of North Carolina, Asheville, USA. Her research interests include aesthetics, ritual, performance, dance anthropology, and embodied religion in South Asia. She is the author of Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam (2014).
Inhaltsangabe
List of Figures; Notes on Transliteration; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction-Katherine C. Zubko and George Pati; 1 The Subtle Body of Vital Presence in Contemplative Practices of Abhinavagupta's Trika aivism and Longchenpa's Great Perfection-Kerry Martin Skora; 2 Daoist Body-Maps and Meditative Praxis -Louis Komjathy; 3 Yuasa Yasuo's Contextualization of the Subtle Body: Phenomenology and Practice- Edward Geoffrey; 4 Dismembering Demons: Spatial and Bodily Representations in the Fifteenth-Century Ekali gam h tmya- Adam Newman; 5 Subtle Body: Rethinking the Body's Subjectivity through Abhinavagupta Body-Loriliai Biernacki; 6 Reprogramming Embodied Experiences in the Mah rthamañjar of Mahe var nanda - Sthaneshwar Timalsina; 7 Sensing the Ascent: Embodied Elements of Muhammad's Heavenly Journey in Nizami Ganjavi's Treasury of Mysteries -Matthew Hotham; 8 Bodies in Translation: Esoteric Conceptions of the Muslim Body in Early-modern South Asia -Patrick J. D'Silva; 9 The Prostituted Body of War: U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea as a Site of Spiritual Activism- Keun-Joo Christine Pae; 10 Frisky Methods: Subtle Bodies, Epistemological Pluralism and Creative Scholarship- Jay Johnston; 11 Autophagous Bliss: The Obliteration of Spatiality in the Bodily Philosophies of Georges Bataille and the Taittir ya Upanishad.-Matthew Robertson
List of Figures; Notes on Transliteration; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction-Katherine C. Zubko and George Pati; 1 The Subtle Body of Vital Presence in Contemplative Practices of Abhinavagupta's Trika aivism and Longchenpa's Great Perfection-Kerry Martin Skora; 2 Daoist Body-Maps and Meditative Praxis -Louis Komjathy; 3 Yuasa Yasuo's Contextualization of the Subtle Body: Phenomenology and Practice- Edward Geoffrey; 4 Dismembering Demons: Spatial and Bodily Representations in the Fifteenth-Century Ekali gam h tmya- Adam Newman; 5 Subtle Body: Rethinking the Body's Subjectivity through Abhinavagupta Body-Loriliai Biernacki; 6 Reprogramming Embodied Experiences in the Mah rthamañjar of Mahe var nanda - Sthaneshwar Timalsina; 7 Sensing the Ascent: Embodied Elements of Muhammad's Heavenly Journey in Nizami Ganjavi's Treasury of Mysteries -Matthew Hotham; 8 Bodies in Translation: Esoteric Conceptions of the Muslim Body in Early-modern South Asia -Patrick J. D'Silva; 9 The Prostituted Body of War: U.S. Military Prostitution in South Korea as a Site of Spiritual Activism- Keun-Joo Christine Pae; 10 Frisky Methods: Subtle Bodies, Epistemological Pluralism and Creative Scholarship- Jay Johnston; 11 Autophagous Bliss: The Obliteration of Spatiality in the Bodily Philosophies of Georges Bataille and the Taittir ya Upanishad.-Matthew Robertson
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