The Routledge Handbook of Religion and the Body

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List of Contributors
Introduction
Part I Theology and Embodied Religiosity
	1 Subtle Bodies and Ecology: Intersubjectivity, Alterity, and New Materialism
	2 Affect and Embodied Emotions
	3 Embodiments of Love in Jewish Sources
	4 Apophatic Theophanies: Incarnational Knowledge of God in Early Eastern Christianity
	5 Disability and Embodied Theology
	6 “We Shall Do and We Shall Understand”: Embodied Theology in Modern Judaism
	7 Transfiguration
	8 The Ruse of Body Language among Muslim Traditionists
	9 Avoidance, Aversion, and Intellectualization: Embodied Brokenness in White Christianity
	10 Ecological Theology and the Body
Part II Gender, Sexuality, and Body Regulations
	11 Bodies of Becoming: The Regulation of Religion and Gender and the Subjectivation of the Secular Body
	12 Maternal Bodies and Religions
	13 Semen and the Self in a Teaching and Prayer
	14 “I Too Desired a Child”: Sufi Hagiography, Ibn Khafif, and the Problem of Celibacy
	15 Corporeal Conscientization: Heralding the Good News of Black Women’s Bodies
	16 Islamic Shi’i Ethics and the Biopolitics of the Maternal Body
Part III Ritual and Performance
	17 Tantric Bodies, AI Immortality, and a Yogurt Model of Self
	18 Holy Heads: Re­Membering John the Baptist and Husayn in Early Christian and Islamic Pilgrimage
	19 Mothers in the Temple: Motherhood, Filial Piety, and Salvation Rituals in Premodern Japanese Buddhism
	20 Body, Community, Cosmos: A Śaiva Siddhānta Rite of Initiation
	21 (In)Conspicuous Consumption: Food, the Child Body, and Inversion of Hard­Core Rituals in Hindu Tantras
	22 The Buddhist Body in a Pill: Notes Towards a Material History of Tantra in Tibet
	23 Performing Kṛṣṇa’s Body in Kerala
	24 Sikh Langar: Tasting the Transcendent
Part IV Religion, Healing, and the Future of the Body
	25 Reiki Practice and the Body as Mediator for Religiosity
	26 Further Explorations of/in Daoist Embodiment
	27 Spiritual Contraptions: Religious Experience and Psychiatrized Bodies in the Nineteenth Century
	28 The Thai Body: Understanding the Principles of Medicine, Physiology, and the Massage Tradition through Inscriptions, Texts, and the Material Culture of Wat Phō
	29 Religion, Body, Excreta
	30 The Future Body: Religious Approaches to Advanced Technological Body Modifications
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