PDF⋙ Sensing Sacred: Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care (Studies in Body and Religion)
Sensing Sacred: Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care (Studies in Body and Religion) Sensing Sacred: Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care (Studies in Body and Religion) PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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 ...