Sacrifices at the altar of self-transformation

Within both cultural and academic understandings, conceptions of what pain is and the ways it is experienced are complicated by moral and medical pathologisation. Pain is often defined in a tautological fashion, as physical suffering or discomfort caused by illness or injury. Both the experience of...

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Authors: Robertson, Alison (Author) ; Wildcroft, Theo (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Equinox Publishing [2017]
In: Body and religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Pages: 88-109
Further subjects:B Lived Religion
B Transformation
B Pain
B Transgression
B Kink
B Yoga
B Bodies
B edgework
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