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1: Body and Religion Unit |
Bodies can be envisioned in a multitude of ways that simultaneously help and hinder the religious imagination and experience: the flesh of a fat body reimagined as absently thin in the afterlife, the digital and simultaneously enfleshed body in the Zoom box, the malleable yet rigid embodiment of transness. This panel brings together five papers to think through the interconnection between bodies considered to be “other” and the associations of both violence and beauty that attend othered bodies. Based in theories of the body, this panel strives to envision bodies within religious spaces and identities that work through both positive and negative processes of enfleshment.
Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
Bodies can be envisioned in a multitude of ways that simultaneously help and hinder the religious imagination and experience: the flesh of a fat body reimagined as absently thin in the afterlife, the digital and simultaneously enfleshed body in the Zoom box, the malleable yet rigid embodiment of transness. This panel brings together five papers to think through the interconnection between bodies considered to be “other” and the associations of both violence and beauty that attend othered bodies. Based in theories of the body, this panel strives to envision bodies within religious spaces and identities that work through both positive and negative processes of enfleshment.