Concilium 2002/ 2 The Body And Religion

Introduction : The body and religion : Regina Ammicht-Quinn and Elsa Tamez — The perfect body : biomedical utopias : Hille Haker — The superfluous body : utopias of information and communication technology : Klaus Wiegerling — The cultural coding of the male and female body : Christina Von Braun — Re-evaluating the body in eco-feminism : Rosemary Radford Reuther — The world as God's body : Sally McFague — Dichotomy or union of soul and body? The origins of the ambivalence of Christianity to the body : Jean-Guy Nadeau — Corporeality and mysticism : Tina Beattie — The immobile dance : the body and the Bible in Latin America : Nancy Cardoso Pereira — Cosmos - church - body : observations on the notion of 'healing pastoral work : Rainer Bucher — The western understanding of the body as a global perspective : Farideh Akashe-Böhme — Bodies and gender in Mesoamerican religions : Silvia Marcos — Embodiment and connexity : an African purview : Gosbert T.M. Byamungu — Suffering, resisting, healing : an Asian view of the body : Sharon A. Bong — Mixed-race body, cosmic race : Carmina Navia Velasco