In this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of Buddhist monks, women's bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after death) served as a central object for meditation, inspiring spiritual growth through sexual abstention and repulsion in the immediate world. Taking up a set of universal concerns connected with the representation of women, Wilson displays the pervasiveness of androcentrism in Buddhist literature and practice. She also makes persuasive use of recent historical work on the religious lives of women in medieval Christianity, finding common ground in the role of miraculous afflictions. This lively and readable study brings provocative new tools and insights to the study of women in religious life.

Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Women in Culture and Society)

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilson, Liz

Sociology

University of Chicago Press

In this highly original study of sexuality, desire, the body, and women, Liz Wilson investigates first-millennium Buddhist notions of spirituality. She argues that despite the marginal role women played in monastic life, they occupied a very conspicuous place in Buddhist hagiographic literature. In narratives used for the edification of Buddhist monks, women's bodies in decay (diseased, dying, and after death) served as a central object for meditation, inspiring spiritual growth through sexual abstention and repulsion in the immediate world. Taking up a set of universal concerns connected with the representation of women, Wilson displays the pervasiveness of androcentrism in Buddhist literature and practice. She also makes persuasive use of recent historical work on the religious lives of women in medieval Christianity, finding common ground in the role of miraculous afflictions. This lively and readable study brings provocative new tools and insights to the study of women in religious life.

Social Sciences

Emotional Intelligence Coaching: Improving Performance for Leaders, Coaches and the Individual

Emotional Intelligence Coaching examines how emotions and habits can impact performance. Emotional intelligence can help coaches recognize how attitudes -- both their own and their clients' -- prevent people from reaching their potential and how to replace them with more useful attitudes, feelings and thoughts. The authors present the various models and tools that coaches can use to help them become more emotionally intelligent when coaching.The book explains the basic principles of emotional intelligence and how these relate to coaching for performance. It includes practical activities for coaching, as well as interviews with coaches who use emotional intelligence as part of their coaching strategy.

Business & Money

Neale, Steve

Spencer-Arnell, Lisa

Management & Leadership

Kogan Page.

Emotional Intelligence Coaching examines how emotions and habits can impact performance. Emotional intelligence can help coaches recognize how attitudes -- both their own and their clients' -- prevent people from reaching their potential and how to replace them with more useful attitudes, feelings and thoughts. The authors present the various models and tools that coaches can use to help them become more emotionally intelligent when coaching. This book explains the basic principles of emotional intelligence and how these relate to coaching for performance. It includes practical activities for coaching, as well as interviews with coaches who use emotional intelligence as part of their coaching strategy.

Neale, Stephen

Emotional Intelligence Coaching examines how emotions and habits can impact performance. Emotional intelligence can help coaches recognize how attitudes -- both their own and their clients' -- prevent people from reaching their potential and how to replace them with more useful attitudes, feelings and thoughts. The authors present the various models and tools that coaches can use to help them become more emotionally intelligent when coaching. This book explains the basic principles of emotional intelligence and how these relate to coaching for performance. It includes practical activities for coaching, as well as interviews with coaches who use emotional intelligence as part of their coaching strategy.

How does religion relate to bodies and sexualities? Many people would answer, simply, "through repression", but the relationship is much more complicated than that. While many religions draw boundaries between what they consider to be appropriate and inappropriate use of the human body, especially in the realm of sexuality, the same religions often celebrate human sexuality and even expect sexual partners to provide each other with sexual pleasure. Celibacy, too, is more than just repression, and sometimes it is even seen as providing the practitioner with great spiritual power; in other settings, the sex act itself is understood to provide this power. Religion, the Body and Sexualityoffers students and general readers a sophisticated and accessible exploration of the connections between religion, sexuality, and the body, through case studies and overviews in the following thematic chapters: <ul> <li>Celibacy</li> <li>Regulation</li> <li>Controversy</li> <li>Violence</li> <li>Innovation</li> <li>Instrumentalization</li> <li>Ecstasy</li> </ul> Each chapter includes suggestions for further reading, questions for further thought, and a list of relevant media resources. This engaging book is an excellent addition to introductory courses on religion or sexuality and is a much-needed new volume for advanced courses on the intersections of these areas of human experience. &nbsp;

Religion, the Body, and Sexuality: An Introduction (Engaging with Religion)

Hoel, Nina

Wilcox, Melissa

Philosophy

Routledge

Religion, the Body, and Sexuality (Engaging with Religion)

Religion & Spirituality

Liz was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes in 1956 at the age of eight. During her life, she had to cope with isolation, rejection and a range of illnesses resulting from the side-effects of diabetes. Some 40 years later, this culminated in a life-threatening heart attack followed by a heart transplant.

Toucans, Souks and Saqqara

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Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Women in Culture and Society)

Charming Cadavers: Horrific Figurations of the Feminine in Indian Buddhist Hagiographic Literature (Women in Culture and Society)

Emotional Intelligence Coaching: Improving Performance for Leaders, Coaches and the Individual

Emotional Intelligence Coaching: Improving Performance for Leaders, Coaches and the Individual

Emotional Intelligence Coaching: Improving Performance for Leaders, Coaches and the Individual

Religion, the Body, and Sexuality: An Introduction (Engaging with Religion)

Religion, the Body, and Sexuality (Engaging with Religion)

Toucans, Souks and Saqqara