Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World and creating rituals for holidays

and creating rituals for holidays like Lent and Juneteenth

As acclaimed scholar Kristin Du Mez explains

that showcase the breathtaking multiplicity of ways humanity has responded to the divine across place and time

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Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World and creating rituals for holidaysPart philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case