RLG211H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Venetian Glass, Purity Ring, Everytime
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Religion has been central to how people imagine the human body (christians sometimes have a mark on their forehead from bowing or something idk) Habitus: embodied dispositions deeply ingrained habits and skills often associated with particular classes or cultural groups pierre bourdie. Your (cid:271)od(cid:455) does things (cid:894)ha(cid:271)its(cid:895) that (cid:455)ou aren"t full(cid:455) a(cid:449)are of. Other ways bodies get shaped think of how your body has been trained to sit in a desk. Or how soldiers bodies are trained to act without the soldier even realizing (ie when they hear the word attention their body automatically reacts into that pose, walking in formation, etc) Discipline gets written in ur body from outside and becomes part of your body. Schools are like the military because they take large groups of people and act in the same way (foucault) Some traditions view it as a tool toward spiritual insights (ie yoga by practicing some techniques you can have a relationship with the cosmos)
