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This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas
about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval
and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope,
it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting
continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual
senses, the volume's organisation emphasises the multisensoriality
and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences,
refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The
senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive,
res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this
collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred
was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by
individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be
essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses,
but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern
bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.
This volume traces transformations in attitudes toward, ideas
about, and experiences of religion and the senses in the medieval
and early modern period. Broad in temporal and geographical scope,
it challenges traditional notions of periodisation, highlighting
continuities as well as change. Rather than focusing on individual
senses, the volume's organisation emphasises the multisensoriality
and embodied nature of religious practices and experiences,
refusing easy distinctions between asceticism and excess. The
senses were not passive, but rather active and reactive,
res-ponding to and initiating change. As the contributions in this
collection demonstrate, in the pre-modern era, sensing the sacred
was a complex, vexed, and constantly evolving process, shaped by
individuals, environment, and religious change. The volume will be
essential reading not only for scholars of religion and the senses,
but for anyone interested in histories of medieval and early modern
bodies, material culture, affects, and affect theory.
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