Religious reflections on the human body / edited by Jane Marie Law.
Contributor(s): Law, Jane Marie
Material type: TextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1995]Copyright date: ©1995Description: xiv, 314 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0253209021 (pbk. : alk. paper); 025333263X (alk. paper)Subject(s): Human body -- Religious aspectsDDC classification: 291.2/2 LOC classification: BL604.B64 | R45 1995Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | John Bulow Campbell Library | Midrange | BL604 .B64 R45 1995 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2 | Available | 0182903007520 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Creation of the body in gnosticism / Pheme Perkins -- Islamic attitudes toward the human body / Michael Winter -- From the Buddha to Buddhaghosa : changing attitudes toward the human body in Theravāda Buddhism / Sue Hamilton -- Faces of sin : corporal geographies in contemporary Islamist discourse / Fedwa Malti-Douglas -- The female body as a source of horror and insight in post-Ashokan Indian Buddhism / Elizabeth Wilson -- Woman as serpent : the demonic feminine in the Noh play Dōjōji / Susan B. Klein -- God's body : the divine cover-up / Howard Eilberg-Schwartz -- On trance and temptation : images of the body in Malaysian Chinese popular religion / Jean DeBernardi -- Reality as embodiment : an analysis of Kūkai's Sokushinjōbutsu and Hosshin Seppō / Thomas P. Kasulis -- The transformation of the body in Taoist ritual / Poul Andersen -- Substitute bodies in Chan/Zen Buddhism / Bernard Faure -- Guru's body, Guru's abode / Daniel Gold -- The puppet as body substitute : Ningyō in the Japanese Shiki Sanbasō performance / Jane Marie Law.