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Sensing Sacred - Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care (Hardcover)
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Sensing Sacred - Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Body and Religion
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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.
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