Religion and Embodiment

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ID9283733
AuthorsJon P Mitchell (0009-0009-6380-910X, University of Sussex, corresponding author)
Year2018
Pages1-8
Publication date2018-09-05
Open AccessYes
TypeOTHER
VenueThe International Encyclopedia of Anthropology (JOURNAL)
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea1791
OpenAlexW2909851816
ISBN9780470657225
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited17

While the anthropology of religion has for some time been concerned with the body, it has only relatively recently turned toward the concept of embodiment. Embodiment shifts the focus from cognitive, linguistic, or language‐like phenomena toward forms of bodily practice and performance that are themselves seen as the substance of religion. Embodiment figures the body as both locus and conduit of embodied religion; the subject, rather than object, of religious process. The concern is therefore less with religious regulation of the body, or the body as symbolic representation of religious meaning, than with the various ways in which religion is enacted, performed, embodied. The approach gives us a new perspective on religious action, conceived as meaningful in and of itself

Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Linguistics · Lived religion · Meaning (existential · Object (grammar · Perspective (graphical · Psychoanalysis · Representation (politics · Sociology · The Symbolic · Visual arts · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Philosophy · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Studies

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