Body
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Contemporary academic interest in the human body is a response to fundamental changes in the relationship between body, economy, technology and society. There are two distinctive traditions in the anthropology and sociological study of the body, that is, the cultural analysis of the body as a system of meaning that has a definite structure existing separately from the consciousness and intentions of individuals, and the phenomenological study of embodiment that attempts to understand human practices or the performativity of the body.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2006
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Religious authority and the new media
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Islam unlike Christianity does not have one religious authority and with global flow of knowledge on the Internet traditional forms of religious authority are every time disrupted and challenged but the Internet creates new opportunities for evangelism, piety and religious instruction is discussed.
Publication Name: Theory, Culture & Society
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0263-2764
Year: 2007
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