Commun(icat)ing Bodies

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2015-08-13
Publisher(s): Nomos/Bloomsbury
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Summary

As a basic medium of human interaction, the body is fundamental to socio-cultural communication systems, in particular the communication system of religion.

This innovative and ground-breaking volume studies these systems and the role that the body plays in their organization through the perspective of the concept of body as a medium and by drawing on media and communication theory.

Author Biography

Anna-Katharina Höpflinger is a Researcher of Religious Studies both at Zurich and Neuenburg University, Switzerland, as well as at the University of Graz, Austria.

Stefanie Knauss is Assistant Professor at the Department of Theology and Religious Studies of Villanova University, USA.

Alexander D. Ornella is Lecturer of Religion at the School of Social Sciences, University of Hull, UK.

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