"I Sing the body electric". Body, Voice, Technology and Religion Journal for Religion, Film and Media

• Main Author: Christian Wessely (auth)
• Other Authors: Milja Radovic (auth), Theresia Heimerl (auth), Johanna Stiebert (auth), Claudia Setzer (auth), Stefan Lorenz Sorgner (auth), Florian Heesch (auth), Elham Manea (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Schüren Verlag 2016
• Series: Journal for Religion, Film and Media
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

In his controversial poem "I Sing the Body Electric", Walt Whitman glorified the human body in all its forms. The world according to Whitman is physical and sensual. Bodies are our fundamental way of being - being in the here and now, being in time and space. Bodies we have and bodies we a...