Title: Religious reflections on the human body /
Authors: Law, Jane Marie
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Human body Religious aspects; Religion; Human Body
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.