Author: F. E. MayerPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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THE RELIGIOUS BODIES OF AMERICA
Author: F. E. MayerReligious Bodies Politic
Author: Anya BernsteinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022607269X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
Religious Bodies Politic examines the complex relationship between transnational religion and politics through the lens of one cosmopolitan community in Siberia: Buryats, who live in a semiautonomous republic within Russia with a large Buddhist population. Looking at religious transformation among Buryats across changing political economies, Anya Bernstein argues that under conditions of rapid social change—such as those that accompanied the Russian Revolution, the Cold War, and the fall of the Soviet Union—Buryats have used Buddhist “body politics” to articulate their relationship not only with the Russian state, but also with the larger Buddhist world. During these periods, Bernstein shows, certain people and their bodies became key sites through which Buryats conformed to and challenged Russian political rule. She presents particular cases of these emblematic bodies—dead bodies of famous monks, temporary bodies of reincarnated lamas, ascetic and celibate bodies of Buddhist monastics, and dismembered bodies of lay disciples given as imaginary gifts to spirits—to investigate the specific ways in which religion and politics have intersected. Contributing to the growing literature on postsocialism and studies of sovereignty that focus on the body, Religious Bodies Politic is a fascinating illustration of how this community employed Buddhism to adapt to key moments of political change.
Religious Bodies
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Religious Bodies: 1926 ....
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Church buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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Religious Bodies: 1936 ...
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Christian sects
Languages : en
Pages : 1422
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Religious Bodies, 1906: Summary and detailed tables
Author: United States. Bureau of the CensusPublisher:
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Category : Church statistics
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
Religion and the Body
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900422534X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning.
The Religious Bodies of America
Author: Frederick Emanuel MayerPublisher:
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Category : Comparative studies
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Describes most religious bodies to help readers understand what each church body believes and practices.
A Directory of Religious Bodies in the United States
Author: J. Gordon MeltonPublisher: Scholarly Title
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Encounters of Body and Soul in Contemporary Religious Practices
Author: Anna FedelePublisher: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 0857452088
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Social scientists and philosophers confronted with religious phenomena have always been challenged to find a proper way to describe the spiritual experiences of the social group they were studying. The influence of the Cartesian dualism of body and mind (or soul) led to a distinction between non-material, spiritual experiences (i.e., related to the soul) and physical, mechanical experiences (i.e., related to the body). However, recent developments in medical science on the one hand and challenges to universalist conceptions of belief and spirituality on the other have resulted in "body" and "soul" losing the reassuring solid contours they had in the past. Yet, in "Western culture," the body–soul duality is alive, not least in academic and media discourses. This volume pursues the ongoing debates and discusses the importance of the body and how it is perceived in contemporary religious faith: what happens when "body" and "soul" are un-separated entities? Is it possible, even for anthropologists and ethnographers, to escape from "natural dualism"? The contributors here present research in novel empirical contexts, the benefits and limits of the old dichotomy are discussed, and new theoretical strategies proposed.