Concilium 2002/2 The Body and Religion Table of Contents

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International Journal for Theology

2002 / No. 2

The Body and Religion

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Body and Religion	7–8
Regina Ammicht Quinn and Elsa Tamez	7–8
I. Phenomenological Investigations
The Perfect Body: Biomedical Utopias	9–18
Hille Haker	9–18
The Superfluous Body: Utopias of Information and Communication Technology	19–28
Klaus Wiegerling	19–28
The Cultural Coding of the Male and Female Body	29–40
Christina von Braun	29–40
II. Theological and Historical Reflections
Re-evaluating the Body in Eco-Feminism	41–49
Rosemary Radford Ruether	41–49
The World as God's Body	50–56
Sally McFague	50–56
Dichotomy or Union of Soul and Body? The Origins of the Ambivalence of Christianity to the Body	57–65
Jean-Guy Nadeau	57–65
Corporeality and Mysticism	66–75
Tina Beattie	66–75
The Immobile Dance: The Body and the Bible in Latin America	76–83
Nancy Cardoso Pereira	76–83
Cosmos — Church — Body: Observations on the Notion of ‘Healing Pastoral Work’	84–96
Rainer Bucher	84–96
III. Intercultural Experiences
The Western Understanding of the Body as a Global Perspective	97–101
Farideh Akashe-Böhme	97–101
Bodies and Gender in Mesoamerican Religions	102–112
Silvia Marcos	102–112
Embodiment and Connexity: An African Purview	113–121
Gosbert T. M. Byamungu	113–121
Suffering, Resisting, Healing: An Asian View of the Body	122–129
Sharon A. Bong	122–129
Mixed-Race Body, Cosmic Race	130–135
Carmiña Navia Velasco	130–135

Edited by Regina Ammicht Quinn and Elsa Tamez

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