Refiguring the Body USAF

Refiguring the Body USAFExamines how embodiment is conceived and experienced in South Asian religions. Refiguring the Body provides a sustained interrogation of categories and models of the body grounded in the distinctive idioms of South Asian religions, particularly Hindu and Buddhist traditions. The contributors engage prevailing theories of the body in the Western academy that derive from philosophy, social theory, and feminist and gender studies. At the same time, they

providing for the first time a comprehensive critical analysis of Bedizuzzaman Said Nursi's 6000-page work of Quranic exegesis

Chapters blend close critical analysis and ethnography to document and interrogate performances and the contexts that inform them

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narratology

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prompting us to think more profoundly about artistic and intellectual exchange in the world of nineteenth-century Orientalist book production

namely Oodgeroo Noonuccal (1920–1993) and Lionel Fogarty (1958– )

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Sveta Roberman examines how they question and negotiate their moral economy and civic culture vis-à-vis the host German state and society

This daring and innovative book proposes a psychology that will serve all life