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© Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2007 DOI: 10.1163/157092507X237372 Journal of Empirical Th eology 20 (2007) 263-285 www.brill.nl/jet Journal of Empirical Theology Book Reviews Becker, S. (2005). Leib — Bildung — Geschlecht. Perspektiven für die Religionspädagogik. Berlin: LIT Verlag. ISBN 3-8258-6628-9 Th e body today has become a central category of academic interest, and yet the discourses of the different disciplines remain to a large extent disconnected from one another. In this dissertation, submitted to Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Becker brings together two streams of research with divergent approaches: on the one hand the discourse of religious education with its focus on subjective, lived bodily experience, and on the other feminist theory with its focus on the social construction of the gendered body. Becker begins by examining the various concepts that oscillate between Körper (the physical or objectified body) and Leib (the living or ‘lived’ body). She herself settles on the term Leibkörper , which expresses an unbridgeable ambiguity in that it points to the living, perceiving Leib as well as to the physical Körper as perceived by others. In a theological sense this term encompasses both the unpossessibility of all that lives and the
Journal of Empirical Theology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 2007
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