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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious life & practice
Movement, smell, vision, and other perceptual experiences are ways
of thinking and orienting ourselves in the world. And yet the
appeal to experience as resource for theology, though a significant
shift in contemporary scholarship, has seldom received nuanced
investigation. How do embodied differences like gender, race,
disability, and sexuality highlight theological analysis and
connect to perceptual experience and theological imagination? In
Meaning in Our Bodies, Heike Peckruhn offers historical and
cultural comparisons, showing how sensory experience may order
normalcy, social status, or communal belonging. Ultimately, she
argues that scholars who appeal to the importance of bodily
experiences need to acquire a robust and nuanced understanding of
how sensory perceptions and interactions are cultural and
theological acts of making meaning.
Although Turkey is a secular state, it is often characterised as a
Muslim country. In her latest book, Lejla Voloder provides an
engaging and revealing study of a Bosniak community in Turkey, one
of the Muslim minorities actually recognised by the state in
Turkey. Under what circumstances have they resettled to Turkey? How
do they embrace Islam? How does one live as a Bosniak, a Turkish
citizen, a mother, a father, a member of a household, and as one
guided by Islam? The first book based on fieldwork to detail the
lives of members of the Bosnian and Bosniak diaspora in Turkey, A
Muslim Minority in Turkey makes a unique contribution to the study
of Muslim minority groups in Turkey and the Middle East.
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