{"title":"Passionate Embrace: Luther on Love, Body, and Sensual Pleasure","authors":"Deanna A. Thompson","doi":"10.1558/BAR.35770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/BAR.35770","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126047429","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":"Shameful Bodies: Religion and the Culture of Physical Improvement","authors":"Jung-Eun Park","doi":"10.1558/bar.35774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.35774","url":null,"abstract":"The current prevalent culture reinforces a certain normalcy of the human body and, as such, labels any ‘non–conforming’ human bodies as shameful. Michelle Mary Lelwica examines the hidden role of religion, more specifically Christianity, in the creation of a culture which underscores a healthy young body, and suggests alternative ways of considering the human body which can honour diversity, fragility and fluidity. As a feminist scholar of religious studies, Lelwica criticises the contemporary culture which can be defined as one of physical improvement, emphasising women’s painful experiences with and struggles over their bodies. In deconstructing a better body story, Lelwica pays attention to Christianity’s contribution to this culture and constructs an alternative approach by engaging with Buddhist teaching, feminism and critical thinking. Furthermore, this book invites the reader to consider the corporality of impermanant body, and this theme unfolds throughout the chapters. Lelwica evocatively utilises her own personal stories in terms of body experiences, including her own eating disorder as a teenager and a bout of osteoarthritis which involved a hip replacement surgery in middle age, along with the stories of her family, which is white, middle-class, athletic and Catholic. In this enterprise, Lelwica’s personal experiences serve as a lens to reflect a culture that idealises young, slim, healthy and non-disabled bodies, and she scrutinises the fantasy of the perfect body saturated in","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122733694","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 taste of religion in the Roman world","authors":"Zena Kamash","doi":"10.1558/BAR.36483","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/BAR.36483","url":null,"abstract":"As well as providing an overview of taste and mainstream Roman religion through sacrifice and feasting, this article highlights some of the specific tastes, and possible menus, of Roman religion. I explore how archaeologists can use the evidence from plant remains, animal bones and objects, such as ceramics, to explore taste. I look at what evidence we have for the main taste groups: sweet, salty, bitter and sour. Case studies are drawn from the northwestern provinces and the Middle East with a focus on Mithraism and the worship of Mercury. I draw out how religious tastes differed from everyday life, and how these differed from god to god and from god to human in an effort to answer the question: what did Roman religion taste like?","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"5 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114022292","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":"Dancing Bodies of Devotion: Fluid Gestures in Bharata Natyam","authors":"Kimerer L. Lamothe","doi":"10.1558/BAR.35773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/BAR.35773","url":null,"abstract":"In this thoughtful and finely crafted work, Katherine Zubko accomplishes a feat that few in the field of religious studies have managed to do: she keeps dance centre stage from beginning to end of her book, and not just as an object to analyse but as a practice capable of generating complex theoretical ideas. In so doing, Zubko levels a sturdy blow against a bulwark of the colonial era that continues to produce affects in the field of religious studies and beyond: a refusal to acknowledge ‘dance’ as ‘religion’. The dance at the heart of Zubko’s book is Bharata Natyam, arguably the most popular and well known form of Indian ‘classical’ dance, emblem of Indian (mostly Hindu) unity, whose own history is indelibly marked by the colonial project. As Zubko relates, nationalists and reformers in midtwentieth century India sought to resurrect and codify the dance traditions of the devadasis, who had been cast out of Hindu temples by British rulers. The reformers invented the name ‘Bharata Natyam’ for the technique they (re)constructed as a way to affirm its direct line to authoritative texts in the Hindu tradition, most notably, Bharata’s second century Nāṭyaśāstra. Zubko does not linger on this history. As she notes, it has been ably told by others. Instead, she focuses on a hand-picked group of contemporary practitioners of Bharata Natyam who use the term bhakti rasa to hold open a space for what many scholars claim was lost in the transition of the","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129705671","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":"Modern Religion, Modern Race","authors":"S. Heschel","doi":"10.1558/bar.35775","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.35775","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114325285","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 texture of the gift","authors":"Jessica Hughes","doi":"10.1558/BAR.36486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/BAR.36486","url":null,"abstract":"What did ancient religion feel like? This article explores different elements of tactile experience in Greco-Roman sanctuaries, focusing on a group of 'confession stelai' from Roman Asia Minor. Themes explored include the transgressive touching of ancient sacred objects by mortals, and the punitive touching of mortal bodies by the Greco-Roman gods. ","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"48 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124785648","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":"Sight and the Byzantine icon","authors":"Angeliki Lymberopoulou","doi":"10.1558/BAR.36484","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/BAR.36484","url":null,"abstract":"This article addresses the sense of sight through case studies drawn from Byzantine art, the art of Orthodox Christianity. Vision is central to Orthodox worship, facilitated by images known as icons. By enabling the visualization of the invisible divine, the importance of icons is paramount in enhancing the faithful’s religious experience.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"214 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114577998","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":"Resounding mysteries","authors":"Georgia Petridou","doi":"10.1558/bar.36485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1558/bar.36485","url":null,"abstract":"The term ‘soundscape’, as coined by the Canadian composer R. Murray Schafer at the end of the 1960s, refers to the part of the acoustic environment that is perceivable by humans. This study attempts to reconstruct roughly the Eleusinian ‘soundscape’ (the words and the sounds made and heard, and those others who remained unheard) as participants in the Great Mysteries of the two Goddesses may have perceived it in the Classical and post-Classical periods. Unlike other mystery cults (e.g. the Cult of Cybele and Attis) whose soundscapes have been meticulously investigated, the soundscape of Eleusis has received relatively little attention, since the visual aspect of the Megala Mysteria of Demeter and Kore has for decades monopolised the scholarly attention. This study aims at putting things right on this front, and simultaneously look closely at the relational dynamic of the acoustic segment of Eleusis as it can be surmised from the work of well-known orators and philosophers of the first and second centuries ce.","PeriodicalId":247531,"journal":{"name":"Body and Religion","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-06-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121703910","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}
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