TY - BOOK ID - 78342238 TI - Refiguring the body : embodiment in South Asian religions AU - Holdrege, Barbara A. AU - Pechilis, Karen PY - 2017 SN - 1438463162 9781438463162 9781438463155 1438463154 9781438463148 1438463146 PB - Albany: State university of New York press, DB - UniCat KW - Human body KW - Buddhism KW - Hinduism KW - Religions KW - Brahmanism KW - Buddha and Buddhism KW - Lamaism KW - Ris-med (Lamaism) KW - Body, Human (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) KW - Religious aspects. KW - South Asia KW - Religion. KW - Bouddhisme KW - Corps humain KW - Hindouisme KW - Études sur le genre KW - Aspect religieux. KW - Asie du Sud KW - Human body - Religious aspects. KW - Buddhism - South Asia. KW - Hinduism - South Asia. KW - South Asia - Religion. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78342238 AB - Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engage prevailing theories of the body in the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social theory, and feminist and gender studies. At the same time, they recognize the limitations of applying Western theoretical models as the default epistemological framework for understanding notions of embodiment that derive from non-Western cultures. Divided into three sections, this collection of essays explores material bodies, embodied selves, and perfected forms of embodiment; divine bodies and devotional bodies; and gendered logics defining male and female bodies. The contributors seek to establish theory parity in scholarly investigations and to re-figure body theories by taking seriously the contributions of South Asian discourses to theorizing the body. ER -