Religion and the Body: Rematerializing the Human Body in the Social Sciences of Religion

McGuire, Meredith B.

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“…They believed that to evolve beyond the human level, group members had to discard all characteristics of humanity. Because bodies contribute to the construction and reflection of social meaning (see McGuire, 1990), the difference in appearance that the members achieved by adopting these measures helped them establish themselves as a group 'preparing to leave Earth'. Members' control of their bodies helped to establish the in-group/out-group dichotomy in which Heaven's Gate represented the saved and the outside world represented those under the influence of Lucifer.…”

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Reconceptualising the human body: Heaven's Gate and the quest for divine transformation

Raine

2005

Religion

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The mass suicide of the members of Heaven's Gate in 1997 stimulated much debate about the causes of so extreme an end to a new religious movement. Using primary source materials in conjunction with existing research, I present in this article an in-depth analysis of both the belief system and the behaviours of the members of the group. By using the sociology of the body and a psychobiography of the group leader, Marshall Applewhite, I show how ideas about the human body derived from individual psychopathology were translated into group belief and action. I argue that the relationship among these variables created the circumstances that led thirty-nine persons to believe that they were leaving this planet for a better existence in a parallel dimension.

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Reconceptualising the human body: Heaven's Gate and the quest for divine transformation

Raine

2005

Religion

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“…Deities also defend the other eight "gates" to the body: the eyes, nostrils, ears, mouth, and anus ... Deities and knowledge inhabit an anatomy much as villages lie at specific sites along a pilgrim's route ... Yolmo bodies, like the temples of lamas, are dense with meaning. (Desjarlais, 1992: 39-42) Following Scheper-Hughes and Lock (1987), we may distinguish these multi ple levels as (a) the lived or experiential body, (b) the political body, and (c) the social body (McGuire, 1990). 1…”

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“…For example, in my earlier empirical examination of non-medical healing in an economically comfortable sub urban US area, I found that adherents of widely differing healing approaches considered the ultimate purpose of healing to be the transforma tion (and in some cases, transcendence) of the self (McGuire, 1988). Our discipline needs to reconceptualize mind, body and society, not merely as connected, but rather as deeply interpenetrating, meshed as a near-unitary phenomenon (McGuire, 1990).…”

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Religion and Healing the Mind/Body/Self

McGuire¹

1996

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“…untuk mencapai sesuatu yang mengandung spritualitas. McGuire (1990) 78 menjelaskan gambaran singkat mengenai beberapa hubungan antara agama dan tubuh dimaksudkan untuk membuat tubuh bermakna dalam dua arti kata. Pertama, tubuh merupakan komponen penting dalam pemahaman kita mengenai aspek sosial agama.…”

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Membebaskan Tubuh Perempuan Dari Penjara Media

Syahputra

2016

J STUDGENIS

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AbstrakArtikel ini mendiskusikan studi tentang tubuh sebagai subjek realitas (khalifah). Kesadaran tubuh menjadi subjek ini adalah kesadaran menjadi ada, berada dan berbeda. Namun sebagai objek, tubuh merupakan ruang pertarungan bagi berbagai kepentingan ideologis. Berbagai kepentingan tersebut saling berlomba mendeterminasi tubuh. Sehingga tubuh yang hadir adalah tubuh palsu sebagai ruang pamer berbagai kepentingan ideologis. Kepentingan ideologis tersebut masuk melalui praktek konsumsi tanda pada tubuh. Kebutuhan tubuh terhadap berbagai konsumsi tersebut dirangsang melalui berbagai kenikmatan yang dijajakan oleh media. Konsumsi tanda bagi tubuh dan tubuh yang termediasi oleh media sesungguhnya adalah tubuh-tubuh yang dipenjara. Tubuh-tubuh tersebut diawasi, diatur dan didisiplinkan agar sampai pada satu kondisi body image yang diinginkan. Body image yang termediasi melalui media lewat berbagai konsumsi tanda dapat dilihat sebagai suatu gejala kematian manusia sebagai subjek. Gejala kematian ini bagian dari dehumanisasi sebagai dampak dari industri media global. Melalui rayuan media, proses kematian tubuh tersebut begitu cair, rileks, menghibur, menyanjung dan menyenangkan. Hingga tanpa terasa bagi siapa saja yang masuk dalam perangkap hasrat tubuh tersebut akan ketagihan hingga akhirnya mengalam decentering of the subject

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Religion and the Body: Rematerializing the Human Body in the Social Sciences of Religion

Cited by 95 publications

References 19 publications

Reconceptualising the human body: Heaven's Gate and the quest for divine transformation

Reconceptualising the human body: Heaven's Gate and the quest for divine transformation

Religion and Healing the Mind/Body/Self

Membebaskan Tubuh Perempuan Dari Penjara Media

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