{"title":"Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples: A Neurocognitive Approach by O. Panagiotidou","authors":"P. Robertson","doi":"10.1558/bar.24601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.24601","url":null,"abstract":"Healing, Disease and Placebo in Graeco-Roman Asclepius Temples: A Neurocognitive Approach by O. Panagiotidou(2022). Sheffield and Bristol: Equinox, xiii + 213pp, 10 figures.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122144372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience by K. R. Barush","authors":"Adrienne Nock Ambrose","doi":"10.1558/bar.24600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.24600","url":null,"abstract":"Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience by K. R. Barush (2021) New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, xiv + 261pp, 15 color plates, 44 figures.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"51 19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115632731","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature by M. R. Henning/Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity by C. R. Moss","authors":"Isaac T. Soon","doi":"10.1558/bar.24602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.24602","url":null,"abstract":"Hell Hath No Fury: Gender, Disability, and the Invention of Damned Bodies in Early Christian Literature by M. R. Henning (2021). New Haven: Yale University Press, xxii + 261pp. \u0000Divine Bodies: Resurrecting Perfection in the New Testament and Early Christianity by C. R. Moss(2019). New Haven: Yale University Press, xxi + 195pp.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123333958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making bodies and worlds","authors":"Stefanie Knauss","doi":"10.1558/bar.22259","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.22259","url":null,"abstract":"Inspired by the intense affective experience of watching the film 120 BPM (Beats Per Minute/Battements par minute) (Robin Campillo, 2017) about the HIV/ AIDS activist group ACT UP Paris, I turn to affect theory to better understand how the film did what it did, tracing the circulating emotions of joy, anger, love, sadness, frustration, and exhilaration among the protagonists on screen, between the screen and the audience, and among the audience. I argue that the film’s affective economy has a religious quality in the way it creates bodies, worlds, and communities, and more specifically, that these religious sensibilities resonate with Christian affectivities in all their complexity. Thus, my argument about the religious affects of 120 BPM also contributes to the reflection on the affective dimensions of Christianity, and religion more broadly, and on the religious dimensions of affective-embodied aesthetic experiences.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130390339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The remembrance of dismembered bodies","authors":"Bryan Ellrod","doi":"10.1558/bar.22145","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.22145","url":null,"abstract":"For nearly three decades, the United States has pursued a border security strategy that has precipitated the deaths of thousands of migrants. Most of these deaths transpire unseen in remote stretches of the Sonoran Desert, where individuals are reduced to disarticulated bones. Endeavoring to overcome political indifference to these deaths, religious leaders, artists, and activists have joined in public works of mourning. These works strive to lend visibility to an otherwise invisible crisis and to grieve otherwise ungrieved lives. Thus, they usher the dead back into the polis and confound the boundaries between insiders and outsiders. However, the effort to re-present the dead runs the risk of making a spectacle out of the violence perpetrated against migrant bodies, inuring us to their witness or, worse, eliciting a perverse enjoyment. This article seeks first to offer a theological justification for political acts of mourning, before going on to articulate a strategy for resisting the dangers implicit in the remembrance of dismembered bodies.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"656 ","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120940844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Embodied neo-spirituality as an experience filter","authors":"Lina Aschenbrenner, Laura von Ostrowski","doi":"10.1558/bar.20526","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.20526","url":null,"abstract":"The authors outline the framework of ‘experience filters’ as a theoretical and methodical approach to grasp the aesthetic effect and the cultural and social influence of religious practices beyond religious settings: Participation in and enactment of practices and rituals (e.g., ‘neo-spiritual’) shape the embodied experience of further practice and ritual performance, as well as cultural and social participation in general. They create experience filters which influence experience beyond the context in which they were created, and which are intrinsically linked to the transformation of ‘body knowledge’ in practice. Experience filters are embodied conditions for the selection, perception, and interpretation of experiences. Thus, the framework underlines the importance of a body focus in cultural studies of religion, and simultaneously offers a practical possibility of including the body in cultural research. The article is based on ethnographic data obtained in the context of two neo-spiritual phenomena – the Israeli movement improvisation practice Gaga in Tel Aviv and Ashtanga Yoga in Germany. The authors sketch an exemplary evolution of different neo-spiritual experience filters in the two practice settings: the awareness, transformed body, positive emotions, and ‘secular’ filter in Gaga; and the mindfulness, balance, and spiritual filter in Ashtanga Yoga.The authors trace the filters in techniques and body knowledge actualizations, and demonstrate how the filters become effective with participants. Ultimately, the comparison of both sets of experience filters shows not only that typical neospiritual experience filters and common and collective effects of neo-spiritual practices exist, but also the way in which the framework experience filters enable researchers to close in on neo-spirituality as a greater social and cultural phenomenon.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132097340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bodies that Matter to God","authors":"M. Purcell","doi":"10.1558/bar.17133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.17133","url":null,"abstract":"Judith Butler revolutionized feminist thought through her theory of gender performance, especially through her book Bodies that Matter, which emphasized how bodies are materialized into intelligibility by discursive means. An aspect that merits more attention is how a theory of performativity can help us to understand religion’s role in this materialization and valuing of bodies. This article proposes a theory of religious performativity based on a conception of agency that takes seriously the additional role of a transcendent agent for the religious person and is, therefore, distinct from Butler. The feminist-based theory is then applied to two documents from complementarian evangelical Christian women within a movement called #SilenceIsNotSpiritual, in order to offer deeper understanding of a predominantly self-identified non-feminist population. This analysis suggests a subtle shift of power is taking place as these women enact their agency, while also highlighting the intricate differences of this movement from the #MeToo movement.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123941607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Punks and profiteers in the war on death","authors":"Jacob A Boss","doi":"10.1558/bar.18251","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.18251","url":null,"abstract":"The genre of transhumanism known as biohacking, or the human augmentation movement, is rooted in a history of medical and scientific developments in the service of religious nationalism, where the perfection of the American body is advanced as a patriotic duty and symbol of the superiority of the American nation. Some participants in the biohacking scene advocate for a classic global rehabilitation project in the tradition of UNESCO, a post-war project of global salvation through collective evolution and science literacy. This vision contrasts sharply with separatist and grassroots biohacking projects. I introduce a model of ‘punks and profiteers’ to investigate two broad genres of biohacking: Corporate Medical Futurism and the DIY biohacker movement. Both strands rely on the fruits of the post-WWII boom in prosthetics, plastic surgery, and drug therapies, fruits well watered by religious and nationalist imperatives. Exploring the war on death led me to the grinder punk biohacking movement, which troubles the dominant view on transhumanism with their delight in human existence, taking limited interest in, or even demonstrating hostility toward, immortality, and rejecting ideas of finding salvation in escape from nature, the human body, and the earth.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"264 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116527976","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘The body is a tool for remembrance’","authors":"Megan Adamson Sijapati","doi":"10.1558/bar.22888","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.22888","url":null,"abstract":"This article is a preliminary analysis of the role of the body in core rituals of a North American branch of the Shadhilyya Sufi order. It draws upon fieldwork conducted between 2016 and 2020 to consider how spiritual healing practices involve the human body sensorily and in experiential, imaginative realms, as conveyed through practitioners’ verbal descriptions of what they feel in the body and how they understand their bodies and the bodies of others. I demonstrate how, in these healing practices, the body is instrumentalized in three key modes – as barometer, controller, and ground of energy – that change the way it is experienced. I argue that the ‘ordinary’ – or, non-extraordinary – body is instrumentalized through these healing modalities to become the site of transformation from spirit to material and material to spirit, and that through this the body emerges as central to everyday, lived Sufi practice. The healings discussed incorporate traditional Muslim devotional practices and long-standing Islamic and Sufi rituals such as dhikr (remembrance, recollection of the divine), recitation of the 99 names of the divine, Qur’anic recitation, cupping, and less traditionally Islamic practices such as acupuncture.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114256023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"religious body imagined II","authors":"M. García","doi":"10.1558/bar.23509","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.23509","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"70 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127997212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}