Bryan S. Turner is the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA (2009–2011) and Professor of Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published Weber and Islam (1974), Marx and the End of Orientalism (1978), and edited Religious Diversity and Civil Society (2007). With Mike Featherstone he founded the journal Body & Society and his book The Body and Society went into its third edition in 2008. He is currently editing the New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion.

“The volume provides a welcome summary of the fast growing literature and introduces a wealth of Asian empirical, ethnographic, and historic data throughout the chapters…the book challenges readers to rethink their own body and the bodies around them in everyday life and provides an excellent introduction into the sociology of the body and the anthropology of embodiment.”  ·  Pacific Asia Inquiry

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Piety, Politics and Philosophy: Asia and the Global BodyBryan S. Turner and Zheng YangwenChapter 1. The Global Body Cannot Ignore AsiaSusan BrownellPART I: THE BODY AND RELIGIONChapter 2. Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist NarrativesMonika DixChapter 3. Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West JavaJörgen HellmanChapter 4. Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary IndonesiaSonja van WichelenPART II: THE BODY AND CULTUREChapter 5. Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s MagazinesJunko IshiguroChapter 6. Fatness and Well-being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary ChinaAnna Lora-WainwrightPART III: THE BODY AND THE STATEChapter 7. Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji JapanDenis GaintyChapter 8. The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino BodyJulius Bautista with Ma. Mercedes PlantaChapter 9. State and Religion Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human SubjectsR. SanthoshChapter 10. Women’s Revolution and Liberation Embodied in Mao Zedong Era BalletZheng YangwenNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Bryan S. Turner is the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA (2009–2011) and Professor of Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published Weber and Islam (1974), Marx and the End of Orientalism (1978), and edited Religious Diversity and Civil Society (2007). With Mike Featherstone he founded the journal Body & Society and his book The Body and Society went into its third edition in 2008. He is currently editing the New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion.

“The volume provides a welcome summary of the fast growing literature and introduces a wealth of Asian empirical, ethnographic, and historic data throughout the chapters…the book challenges readers to rethink their own body and the bodies around them in everyday life and provides an excellent introduction into the sociology of the body and the anthropology of embodiment.”  ·  Pacific Asia Inquiry

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Piety, Politics and Philosophy: Asia and the Global BodyBryan S. Turner and Zheng YangwenChapter 1. The Global Body Cannot Ignore AsiaSusan BrownellPART I: THE BODY AND RELIGIONChapter 2. Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist NarrativesMonika DixChapter 3. Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West JavaJörgen HellmanChapter 4. Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary IndonesiaSonja van WichelenPART II: THE BODY AND CULTUREChapter 5. Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s MagazinesJunko IshiguroChapter 6. Fatness and Well-being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary ChinaAnna Lora-WainwrightPART III: THE BODY AND THE STATEChapter 7. Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji JapanDenis GaintyChapter 8. The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino BodyJulius Bautista with Ma. Mercedes PlantaChapter 9. State and Religion Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human SubjectsR. SanthoshChapter 10. Women’s Revolution and Liberation Embodied in Mao Zedong Era BalletZheng YangwenNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex

Bryan S. Turner is the Alona Evans Distinguished Visiting Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA (2009–2011) and Professor of Social and Political Thought and Director of the Centre for the Study of Contemporary Muslim Societies at the University of Western Sydney, Australia. He has published Weber and Islam (1974), Marx and the End of Orientalism (1978), and edited Religious Diversity and Civil Society (2007). With Mike Featherstone he founded the journal Body & Society and his book The Body and Society went into its third edition in 2008. He is currently editing the New Blackwell Companion to the Sociology of Religion.

“The volume provides a welcome summary of the fast growing literature and introduces a wealth of Asian empirical, ethnographic, and historic data throughout the chapters…the book challenges readers to rethink their own body and the bodies around them in everyday life and provides an excellent introduction into the sociology of the body and the anthropology of embodiment.”  ·  Pacific Asia Inquiry

• List of FiguresAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Piety, Politics and Philosophy: Asia and the Global BodyBryan S. Turner and Zheng YangwenChapter 1. The Global Body Cannot Ignore AsiaSusan BrownellPART I: THE BODY AND RELIGIONChapter 2. Saint or Serpent? Engendering the Female Body in Medieval Japanese Buddhist NarrativesMonika DixChapter 3. Creating Religious Bodies: Fasting Rituals in West JavaJörgen HellmanChapter 4. Formations of Public Piety: New Veiling, the Body, and the Citizen-Subject in Contemporary IndonesiaSonja van WichelenPART II: THE BODY AND CULTUREChapter 5. Westernized Body or Japanized Western Body: The Desirable Female Body in Contemporary Japanese Women’s MagazinesJunko IshiguroChapter 6. Fatness and Well-being: Bodies and the Generation Gap in Contemporary ChinaAnna Lora-WainwrightPART III: THE BODY AND THE STATEChapter 7. Seki Jūrōji and the Japanese Body: Martial Arts, Kokutai, and Citizen–State Relations in Meiji JapanDenis GaintyChapter 8. The Sacred and the Sanitary: The Colonial ‘Medicalization’ of the Filipino BodyJulius Bautista with Ma. Mercedes PlantaChapter 9. State and Religion Contestations over the Body: Hook Swinging and the Production of New Human SubjectsR. SanthoshChapter 10. Women’s Revolution and Liberation Embodied in Mao Zedong Era BalletZheng YangwenNotes on ContributorsBibliographyIndex