British Studies Lecture Series

‘When I feel very near to God, I always feel such a need to undress’: Religion, Nakedness and the Body Divine


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Speaker - Philippa Levine
Diverse institutions have attempted to order and to organize, to regulate and to banish, to promote and to sell nakedness. Focusing on religion's always ambivalent relationship with the human body, this talk explores a cultural history with surprisingly powerful contemporary resonance.
Philippa Levine holds the Walter Prescott Webb Chair in History and Ideas at UT. Her most recent book, part of the Oxford University Press Very Short Introduction series, is on eugenics. The third edition of her The British Empire: Sunrise to Sunset will be out in January, and a Japanese translation will follow in the spring.
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