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    The body unbound: philosophical perspectives on politics, embodiment and religion (edited book)
    with Marius Timmann Mjaaland and Ola Sigurdson
    Cambridge Scholars Press. 2010.
    A philosophical inquiry into politics, embodiment and religion takes us straight to some of contemporary culture's most notorious issues: suicide bombing, the veiled and the exposed body, and present-day biopolitics. Interpretations of the body have always been contested, both in the history of philosophy and in the history of religions. On the one hand, the body has been perceived as a prison, binding the soul to transience, darkness, and confusion. Yet on the other hand, it has itself been con…Read more