Philip Mellor is Professor of Religion and Social Theory at University of Leeds.
Introduction
Modalities of the Sacred
Other-Worldly and This-Worldly Intoxication
The Bio-Medicalization of Pain
The Aestheticization of Charisma
The Materialization of Eroticism
Instauring the Religious Habitus
Conclusion
"About time! Two key experts in the field remind us of the significance and power of religion as bio-political and bio-economic."
- Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths, University of London
"A welcome addition to a continuing body of work by two distinguished theorists of religion."
- Grace Davie, University of Exeter
"This book is ambitious, refreshing and rewarding. It offers the best available analysis of the complex interlacing of the sacred, religion, secularization and embodied experience."
- James A. Beckford, University of Warwick
This book is key reading for the sociology of religion, the body and modern culture.