Rethinking the Religious Body

This workshop will center on the central importance of religion in shaping and conceiving of bodies and sexualities. It is to be asked how the fe/male body carries and/or escapes the burden of representing the family/community/nation. Aspects of purity, chastity, and cleansing, but also of veiling and wrapping bodies and of diverging ideas of salvation of wo/man are some of the aspects dealt with. Some pertaining questions are:

How do religious concepts and practices shape fe/male bodies and in which ways do they inscribe themselves in these bodies?
In which ways can we identify and define the links between body on the one hand and concepts of individuality and family/community on the other?
Of what importance is the role of ritual for individual or collective strategies of shaping bodies and to what extent can rituals be used as instruments of subversion?

 

Melanie Trede, Prof. Dr.

Deputy Speaker, Research Area B "Public Spheres", Cluster "Asia and Europe"
Professor of East Asian Art History, Heidelberg University

Contact information
Institute of East Asian Art History
Heidelberg University
Seminarstraße 4
69117 Heidelberg
Germany

Email: trede@asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de
Phone: +49 (0) 6221 54 3969

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