This will be the standard study on the "body" in relation to the major religions. It highlights the distinctive and unfamiliar ways in which diverse religious traditions understand the "body" and notes the assumptions and problems of contemporary attitudes to it. Religion and the Body brings together essays by established experts in the history of religion, the social sciences and philosophy. The result is a rich source for comparative studies of the "body", its relation to society and to the divine. 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.
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