Re-forming the Body: Religion, Community and Modernity (Theory, Culture & Society) - Softcover

Buch 20 von 127: Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Mellor, Philip A.; Shilling, Chris

 
9780803977235: Re-forming the Body: Religion, Community and Modernity (Theory, Culture & Society)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803977239 ISBN 13: 9780803977235
Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Through an analysis of successive re-formations of the body, this innovative and penetrating book constructs a fascinating and wide-ranging account of how the creation and evolution of different patterns of human community are intimately related to the somatic experience of the sacred.

The book places the relationship between the embodiment and the sacred at the crux of social theory, and casts a fresh light on the emergence and transformation of modernity. It critically examines the thesis that the rational projects of modern embodiment have `died and gone to cyberspace', and suggests that we are witnessing the rise of a virulent, effervescent form of the sacred which is changing how people `see' and `keep in touch' with t

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Philip Mellor is Professor of Religion and Social Theory at University of Leeds.

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Verlag
SAGE Publications Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
1997
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0803977239
ISBN 13 
9780803977235
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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