Tag: Bodies

The Resurrection of the Bodies We Have

For the heart, life is simple: it beats for as long as it can. Then it stops. Sooner or later, one day, this pounding action will cease of its own accord, and the blood will begin to run towards the body’s lowest point, where it will collect in a small
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Transformed Hearts, Transformed Bodies: Christian Pilgrimage Tattoos as Products of a Ritual Process

For as long as humans have traveled to new places, they have collected mementos to bring home—things that encapsulated the place they visited and helped them convey something of it to those who had remained behind. Pilgrims, a specific group of travelers who take to the roads for explicitly religious
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