Religion and the body / edited by Sarah Coakley.

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1997.

xvii, 312 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Religion and the body / Sarah Coakley -- The body in Western society: Social theory and its perspectives / Bryan S. Turner -- Remarks on the anthropology of the body / Talal Asad -- The soul's successors: Philosophy and the 'body' / Mary Midgley -- The body in Jewish worship: Three rituals examined / Louis Jacobs -- 'My helper and my enemy': The body in Greek Christianity / Kallistos Ware -- The body in Western Catholic Christianity / Andrew Louth -- The image of the body in the formative phases of the Protestant Reformation / David Tripp -- Zoroastrianism and the body / Alan Williams -- Medical and mythical constructions of the body in Hindu texts / Wendy Doniger -- The body in Theravada Buddhist monasticism / Steven Collins -- Some Mahayana Buddhist perspectives on the body / Paul Williams -- The Taoist body and cosmic prayer / Michael Saso -- Perceptions of the body in Japanese religion / Michael Pye -- 'I take off the dress of the body': Eros in Sufi literature and life / Annemarie Schimmel -- The body in Sikh tradition / Eleanor Nesbitt.

Includes bibliographies and index.