Posthuman Spiritualities in Contemporary Performance by Silvia Battista

Author:Silvia Battista
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Such transformation, in the case of anchorholds , was effected not only by the specific ritualistic practices performed inside the cell by the anchorites , such as meditation and prayer, but also by the collective interpretation of society at large (ibid.). McAvoy suggests that the culture of the anchorites , although embedded in Christianity, brought into question the common assumption of a dualistic approach to the body , based on Neoplatonism and inherited by Christianity (McAvoy 2011, 6). The religious studies scholar Anne Savage, in the essay‚ “From Anchorhold to Cell of Self-knowledge : Points along a History of the Human Body ”, endorses this hypothesis , arguing that:English anchoritic texts, even while participating in [the] discourse of [the] antithesis [of body and spirit], show the anchoritic life striving towards a unified understanding of the embodied spirit . (2008, 157)

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