Sensing Sacred

Sensing Sacred

by Stephanie ArelJason Hays Shirley Guider and others
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 30/08/2016

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Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion” and “body” through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript argues that all human interaction and practice, including religious praxis, engages “body” through at least one of the human senses (touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight, kinestics/proprioception). Unfortunately, body—and, more specifically and ironically, sensation—is eclipsed in contemporary academic scholarship that is inherently bent toward the realm of theory and ideas. This is unfortunate because it neglects bodies, physical or communal, as the repository and generator of culturally conditioned ideas and theory. It is ironic because all knowledge transmission minimally requires several senses including sight, touch, and hearing. Sensing Sacred is organized into two parts. The first section devotes a chapter to each human sense as an avenue of accessing religious experience; while the second section explores religious practices as they specifically focus on one or more senses. The overarching aim of the volume is to explicitly highlight each sense and utilize the theoretical lenses of practical theology to bring to vivid life the connections between essential sensation and religious thinking and practice.

ISBN:
9781498531245
9781498531245
Category:
Theology
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
30-08-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Lexington Books
John Carr

John Carr was born in North Staffordshire in 1948 of mixed Greek and English parentage. He is now semi-retired from a long career as a journalist, correspondent and broadcaster (The Times, Wall Street Journal Europe, Vatican Radio) mainly in the Mediterranean and particularly Greece, where he now resides, indulging his love of Greek history. His previous books for Pen & Sword are On Spartan Wings, a history of the Royal Hellenic Air Force in WWII (2012), and Sparta's Kings (2012)

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