Ornella / Knauss / Höpflinger Commun(icat)ing Bodies

Body as a Medium in Religious Symbol Systems
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-8452-6212-3
Verlag: Nomos
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 11, 429 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 226 mm

Reihe: Religion ? Wirtschaft ? Politik

As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system „religion“. Over time, religious traditions – in all their various cultural and historical forms and incarnations – have developed elaborated symbolic systems with the body at their center.

This volume proposes to study these systems and the role that body plays in their organization through the perspective of the concept of body as a medium and by drawing on media and communication theory. The papers collected in this volume explore this perspective in relation to different religious traditions, historical periods and theoretical as well as theological themes. They also engage in specific theoretical frameworks in order to discuss the scope and limitations of thinking of the body as a medium in religious symbol systems. Topics covered range from ancient mythology to contemporary Parsi rituals to the boundaries between body and technology.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ornella, Alexander Darius

Knauss, Stefanie

Höpflinger, Anna-Katharina

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Cover;1
2; Introduction. Body, Communication and Religion;12
3; Bodies. Michael Hedwig’s Art;26
4;I Bodies Mediating Experiences;32
4.1; A Sacramental Medium. Reflections on a Christian Theological Anthropology of the Sexual Human Being;34
4.2; A Strange Thickness. The Body in the Poetry of Pier Paolo Pasolini;62
4.3; “To Glorify God in Our Bodies” The Body as an Interface Between Moral and Medical Discourse in the Foundation of the Seventh-day Adventist Church;86
4.4; Food, Bodies and Ecosystems. Insights from Catholic and Buddhist Contemplative Traditions;104
4.5; Seeing, Believing, Suffering. The Body as Medium in Religion and Contemporary Media Practice;128
5;II Bodies Mediating Boundaries;132
5.1; Opening Up and Closing Down. Bodies – Technologies – Boundaries;154
5.2; Ritual and Discursive Practices. Community and Body in a Bourdieuian Perspective;188
5.3; Body as a Medium in Religion. A Sociology of the Religious Body;214
5.4; The Possessed Body. Anthropologies of Corporeality in Religious Contexts;236
5.5; Religion Skin-deep. A Study of the Tattooed Bodies of European Seafarers;258
6;III Bodies Mediating Reflexivity;280
6.1; The Circuit of Gender Constructions. Interrelating Religion, Gender and Body;282
6.2; Body-God. Religion and Systems Theory;300
6.3; Methodology of the Study of Body and Religion. Reflections on Salience and Reflexivity;326
6.4; Bodies on a Mission. A Historical Approach through Textual Analysis;368
6.5; Confronting Asia’s “Idolatrous Body” Reading some Early Modern European Sources on Indian Religion;388
7; Contributors;426