Religious boundaries for sex, gender, and corporeality. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Alexandra Cuffel, Ana Echevarria, and Georgios T. Halkias.
• Editors: Cuffel, Alexandra; Echevarria, Ana; Halkias, Georgios, 1967-
• Contents: Introduction: From Reflections to Membranes: Transcripts on the Body in Religious Discourse Georgios T. Halkias 1 Semper Aliquid Haeret! The Accusation of Fornication and of Sexualized Cults as a Means of Demarcation in the Hebrew Bible Christian Frevel 2 Some Daoist Theories on Sexual Body Alteration Stephen Eskildsen 3 The Female Body In The Practice Of Minority Muslim Communities In Medieval Iberia Ana Echevarria 4 Strong Men and Sensual Women in Sinhala Buddhist Poetry Stephen C. Berkwitz 5 The Dangers of the Body in Early Jewish Mysticism Rebecca Lesses 6 Hoc est Corpus meum – Body Talk in ‘Orthodox’ Lutheran Protestantism in the Eighteenth Century Knut Martin Stünkel 7 Fishing for Cod: The Image of the Penis in European Imperial Expansion Adam Knobler 8 Body, Senses and Gender-related Questions as Gates to the Transcendent: A New Reading of the Masāʾil ʿAbdallāh ibn Salām Ulisse Cecini 9 Ambivalent Models of Manliness in Medieval Islamic Hagiography Linda G. Jones 10 Coming Together in the Air: Mysticism and the Queering of Jesus in the Toledot Yeshu Alexandra Cuffel 11 Embodying the Diamond Sow: Tantric Pilgrims in the Secret Lotus Land Amelia Hall 12 Monasticism, the Body, and Sexual Desire in Mongolian Pastoral Culture Vesna A. Wallace
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 202.2; Sex -- Religious aspects; Human body -- Religious aspects
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351171700; 9781351171717; 9781351171694; 9781351171724
• Related ISBNs: 9780815399506
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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