Concilium 2002/2: Body and Religion

By Regina Ammicht-Quinn and Regina Ammicht Quinn

Introduction: The body and religion: Regina Ammicht-Quinn and Elsa Tamez -- The perfect body: biomedical utopias: Hille Haker -- The superfluous body: utopias of information and communication technology: Klaus Wiegerling -- The cultural coding of the male and female body: Christina Von Braun -- Re-evaluating the body in eco-feminism: Rosemary Radford Reuther -- The world as God's body: Sally McFague -- Dichotomy or union of soul and body? The origins of the ambivalence of Christianity to the body: Jean-Guy Nadeau -- Corporeality and mysticism: Tina Beattie -- The immobile dance: the body and the Bible in Latin America: Nancy Cardoso Pereira -- Cosmos - church - body: observations on the notion of 'healing pastoral work: Rainer Bucher -- The western understanding of the body as a global perspective: Farideh Akashe-Bo?hme -- Bodies and gender in Mesoamerican religions: Silvia Marcos -- Embodiment and connexity: an African purview: Gosbert T.M. Byamungu -- Suffering, resisting, healing: an Asian view of the body: Sharon A. Bong -- Mixed-race body, cosmic race: Carmin?a Navia Velasco

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0334030684
• ISBN13: 9780334030683
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: SCM Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"