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Judaism --- Hinduism --- Creation --- Relations --- Hinduism. --- Judaism. --- Comparative studies. --- Bible. O.T. Pentateuch --- Comparative studies --- Vedas --- Judaism - Relations - Hinduism. --- Hinduism - Relations - Judaism. --- Creation - Comparative studies.

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The historical shift from Vedic traditions to post-Vedic bhakti (devotional) traditions is accompanied by a shift from abstract, translocal notions of divinity to particularized, localized notions of divinity and a corresponding shift from aniconic to iconic traditions and from temporary sacrificial arenas to established temple sites. In Bhakti and Embodiment Barbara Holdrege argues that the various transformations that characterize this historical shift are a direct consequence of newly emerging discourses of the body in bhakti traditions in which constructions of divine embodiment proliferat.

Bhakti. --- Krishna (Hindu deity) --- Vaishnavism. --- Chaitanya (Sect) --- Human body

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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.

Human body --- Buddhism --- Hinduism --- Religions --- Brahmanism --- Buddha and Buddhism --- Lamaism --- Ris-med (Lamaism) --- Body, Human (in religion, folk-lore, etc.) --- Religious aspects. --- South Asia --- Religion. --- Bouddhisme --- Corps humain --- Hindouisme --- Études sur le genre --- Aspect religieux. --- Asie du Sud --- Human body - Religious aspects. --- Buddhism - South Asia. --- Hinduism - South Asia. --- South Asia - Religion.