Thoraya Ahmed Obaid
Thoraya Ahmed Obaid
This essay examines the relationship between religion and public policy issues concerning reproductive health and rights. It particularly focuses on how such issues affect women. Although not ignoring the sometimes oppositional stance of so...
Secularizing the pain of footbinding in China: missionary and medical stagings of the universal body [0.03%]
中国世俗社会的缠足之痛：传教士和医生的身体剧场形象工程
Angela Zito
Angela Zito
How did foreign Christian anti-footbinding activists treat the distinctive forms of human embodiment they encountered in China? What were their assumptions? How should we understand the transition from religious to secular imaginings of the...
Bron Taylor
Bron Taylor
"Soul surfers" consider surfing to be a profoundly meaningful practice that brings physical, psychological, and spiritual benefits. They generally agree on where surfing initially developed, that it assumed a religious character, was suppre...
Samuel Snyder
Samuel Snyder
Fly fishers around the world frequently use terms such as religious, spiritual, sacred, divine, ritual, meditation, and conversion to describe their personal angling experiences. Further, drawing upon religious terminology, anglers will ref...
A Whitney Sanford
A Whitney Sanford
This paper argues that whitewater paddling constitutes religious experience, that non-western terms often best describe this experience and that these two facts are related and have much to tell us about the nature of religious experience. ...
Inca of the blood, Inca of the soul: embodiment, emotion, and racialization in the Peruvian mystical tourist industry [0.03%]
血统印加与灵魂印加：秘鲁神秘旅游产业中的身体、情感和种族化问题
Michael Hill
Michael Hill
In the context of the globalizing New Age movement and of the "turismo mistico" (mystical tourism) industry emanating from Peru, white and mestizo New Age practitioners and tourists fashion ideologies emphasizing the spiritual energy which ...
Paul R Kolbet
Paul R Kolbet
In a world where too many people continue to be tortured without recourse to legal protections, nonlegislative resources for preserving human dignity amid dehumanizing terror are much needed. This article analyzes the hermeneutical exercise...
Queer eye for the ascetic guy? Homoeroticism, children, and the making of Monks in late antique Egypt [0.03%]
独身眼为苦行者？同性恋、儿童与晚期埃及修道士的形成
Caroline T Schroeder
Caroline T Schroeder
A famous instruction about children in monasteries reads: "Do not bring young boys here. Four churches in Scetis are deserted because of boys." Taken from the Sayings of the Desert Fathers, this apophthegm exposes the presence of homoerotic...
"Born again is a sexual term": demons, STDs, and God's healing sperm [0.03%]
“重生是个色情术语”：恶魔、性病和上帝的治愈精液
Amy DeRogatis
Amy DeRogatis
In this article I examine the intersection between sexuality and spirit-filled bodies in American Evangelicalism. I am interested in investigating two issues: the sexual body as a site of spiritual battle and the use of popular science, esp...
Grasping at ontological straws: overcoming reductionism in the Advaita Vedānta-Neuroscience dialogue [0.03%]
抓着本体论的救命稻草：超越Advaita Vedanta神经科学对话中的还原主义
Stephen Kaplan
Stephen Kaplan
Contemporary neuropsychology reveals that the parietal lobe contains neurons that are specifically attuned to the act of grasping and this act may be fundamental to the establishment of the phenomenal boundaries between subject and object. ...