Transformational embodiment in Asian religions : subtle bodies, spatial bodies /: subtle bodies, spatial bodies. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by George Pati and Katherine C. Zubko.
• Editors: Pati, George; Zubko, Katherine C
• Contents: The subtle body of vital presence in contemplative practices of Abhinavagupta's Trika Śaivism and Longchenpa's great perfection / Kerry Martin Skora -- Daoist body-maps and meditative praxis / Louis Komjathy -- Yuasa Yasuo's contextualization of the subtle body : phenomenology and practice / Edward J. Godfrey -- Dismembering demons : spatial and bodily representations in the fifteenth-century Ekaliṅgamāhātmya / Adam Newman -- Subtle body : rethinking the body's subjectivity through Abhinavagupta body / Loriliai Biernacki -- Embodied experience in the Mahārthamañjarī of Maheśvarānanda / Sthaneshwar Timalsina -- Sensing the ascent : embodied elements of Muhammad's heavenly journey in Nizami Ganjavi's Treasury of Mysteries / Matthew R. Hotham -- Bodies in translation : esoteric conceptions of the Muslim body in early-modern South Asia / Patrick J. D'Silva -- The prostituted body of war : U.S. military prostitution in South Korea as a site of spiritual activism / Keun-Joo Christine Pae -- Frisky methods : subtle bodies, epistemological pluralism and creative scholarship / Jay Johnston -- Bliss and bodily disorientation : the autophagous mysticism of Georges Bataille and the Taittirīya Upaniṣad / Matthew I. Robertson.
• Publisher Details: Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2020
• Copyright Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 269 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 200.95; Human body -- Religious aspects; RELIGION -- Comparative Religion; PHILOSOPHY -- Mind & Body; RELIGION -- Eastern; Human body -- Religious aspects; Religion; Asia -- Religion; Asia; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000734942; 1000734943; 9780429356056; 0429356056; 9781000735444; 1000735443; 9781000735192; 1000735192
• Related ISBNs: 9780367375553; 0367375559
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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