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Sensing Sacred

Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care
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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.

Author Biography:

Jennifer Baldwin is adjunct professor at Elmhurst College, executive director and clinician at Grounding Flight Wellness Center, founder and executive director of Vertical Exploration Foundation, and senior editor of Vertical Exploration Journal.
Release date NZ
March 23rd, 2018
Audience
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Contributions by Bonnie Miller-McLemore
  • Contributions by Christina Jones Davis
  • Contributions by Emmanuel Y Lartey
  • Contributions by Jason Hays
  • Contributions by Jennifer Baldwin
  • Contributions by John Carr
  • Contributions by Martha Jacobi
  • Contributions by Shirley Guider
  • Contributions by Stephanie Arel
  • Edited by Jennifer Baldwin
Pages
206
Dimensions
151x230x17
ISBN-13
9781498531252
Product ID
27600155

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