Studies in Body and Religion: Announcing a New Book Series

Announcing a new book series, Studies in Body and Religion, to be published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman-Littlefield, we visualize this series as composed of two related lists:  Body in Religious Traditions and Thematic Approaches to Body and Religion.  The first will include not only major world religions such as Buddhism, Judaism and Sikhism, but other traditions as well—indigenous traditions, contemporary pagan religions, and new religious movements, for example.  The second could include a variety of themes. Some of our ideas for this line are:

• Body and Religion Theoretical Considerations
• Body, Religion, and Science
• Area Studies Approaches to Religion (Body in North American Religions, Body in East Asian Religions, e.g.)
• Religious Dimensions of Secular Bodies
• Approaches to the Body in Ritual
• Gendered bodies in religion
• Religion, Body and Play
• Embodied Pedagogies of Religion
• Body, Medicine, and Healing

We would like to have scholars of different levels of experience contribute to this series—both those established in their fields and younger scholars opening up new topics in the area of body and religion.  Overall, our main goal is to find and publish the best contemporary scholarship on body and religion.

If you think that you are just the right person to address one of these topics or can point us to someone else whose expertise addresses one of them, or if you have an idea for a thematic topic, we would like to hear from you.

We look forward to moving forward with this project.  If you would like further information please contact either Richard Carp (carprm@appstate.edu) or Rebecca Norris (rsnorris@sacredgames.org).

Rebecca Norris and Richard Carp, series co-editors