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Religious reflections on the human body / edited by Jane Marie Law.

Contributor(s): Law, Jane Marie
Material type: TextTextPublisher: 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.
Contents:
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.
Holdings
Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book 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.

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