Transforming Bodies and Religions

<p>This book sheds an interdisciplinary light on ‘transforming bodies’: bodies that have been subjected to contributed to or have resisted social transformations within religious or secular contexts in contemporary Europe. It explores the intersections of race ethnicity gender sexuality and religion that underpin embodied transformations. Using post-secularist postcolonial and gender/queer perspectives it aims to gain a better understanding of the orchestrations and effects of larger social transitions related to religion. </p><p>This volume is the outcome of the intensive collaboration of the authors who for years have been meeting regularly in Utrecht the Netherlands to discuss themes related to religion and ‘the challenge of difference’ with an added afterword by Prof. Pamela Klassen from the University of Toronto. The book is divided in three subsections that focus on particular types of embodiment: body politics in governmental and NGO organisations; the role of the body in literary and/or autobiographical narratives; and ethnographic case studies of bodies in daily life. </p><p>Doing so it provides an innovative exploration of contemporary religion and the body. It will therefore be of great interest to scholars of Religious Studies Gender and Sexuality Studies Post-Colonial Studies Anthropology Sociology Theology and Philosophy.</p>