Re-Forming the Body: Religion, Community and Modernity

by Chris Shilling and Philip A. Mellor

Book Overview

Through an analysis of successive reformations of the body, this innovative and penetrating book constructs a fascinating and wide-ranging account of how the creation and evolution of different patterns of human community are intimately related to the somatic experience of the sacred. The book places the relationship between embodiment and the sacred at the crux of social theory and casts a fresh light on the emergence and transformation of modernity...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803977239
• ISBN13: 9780803977235
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"