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Sensing Sacred

Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care [Hardback]

by Jennifer Baldwin, Stephanie Arel

    • Author

      Jennifer Baldwin

    • Book Format

      Hardback

    • Publisher

      Lexington Books

    • Published

      August 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.

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      • Author

        Jennifer Baldwin

      • Book Format

        Hardback

      • Publisher

        Lexington Books

      • Published

        August 2016

      • Weight

        454g

      • Page Count

        224

      • Dimensions

        153 x 229 x 17 mm

      • ISBN

        9781498531238

      • ISBN-10

        1498531237

      • Eden Code

        4456383

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      • Author/Creator: Jennifer Baldwin

      • ISBN: 9781498531238

      • Publisher: Lexington Books

      • Release Date: August 2016

      • Weight: 454g

      • Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 17 mm

      • Eden Code: 4456383


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