Embodied Reception: South Asian Spiritualities in Contemporary Contexts (Study of Religion in a Global Context) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1800503547 ISBN 13: 9781800503540

Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Embodied Reception investigates contemporary bodily practices as a mode of transmitting and receiving South Asian religious and spiritual traditions. It explores processes of adoption and adaptation, and the ways in which somatic religious practices are transplanted into new contexts, acquiring new meanings and generating dynamics of their own. Using the concept of "embodied reception" as a heuristic, the contributors address the dialectic between incorporating religious knowledge by performing bodily practices and opening new avenues for religious meaning-making through bodily experiences.This collection presents a range of empirical cases: contemplative bodily techniques such as postural yoga, mindfulness, and meditation; ritual practices in modern advaitic satsang; South Indian martial arts; tantric goddess veneration; and contemporary S¿¿khyayoga practices. The empirical studies span devotional communities, yoga institutions, New Age milieus, and secularized contexts, providing a rich tapestry of contemporary embodied reception in and outside South Asia.Assembling research on embodied forms of reception in South Asia and in Western countries, this volume advocates for paying close attention to entangled histories of knowledge. Grounded in this empirical outlook, it also speaks to theoretical and methodological debates on travelling bodily practices. The contributions suggest theoretical and methodological frameworks ranging from aesthetics of religion to sociology of knowledge, from ethnographic to cognitive approaches.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Henriette Hanky is a doctoral candidate in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. She works on a research project on contemporary forms of the Osho/Sannyas movement in Europe and India. She has published articles on Osho-related meditation retreats, new religious movements and mediatization as well as on religion and embodiment.

István Keul is Professor in the Study of Religions at the University of Bergen, Norway. His areas of research include various aspects of the history and sociology of South Asian religions. He is the author of a monograph on the Hindu deity Hanumān and has edited volumes on tantra, yoginīs, Banaras and consecration rituals, and recently Spaces of Religion in Urban South Asia (2021, Routledge)

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Equinox Publishing Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1800503547
• ISBN 13: 9781800503540
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304
• Herausgeber: Hanky Henriette, Jacobsen Knut A., Keul Istvan
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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