Meaning in Our Bodies

Sensory Experience as Constructive Theological Imagination

AvHeike Peckruhn

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Movement, smell, vision, and other perceptual experiences are ways of thinking and orienting ourselves in the world. And yet the appeal to experience as resource for theology, though a significant shift in contemporary scholarship, has seldom received nuanced investigation. How do embodied differences like gender, race, disability, and sexuality highlight theological analysis and connect to perceptual experience and theological imagination? In Meaning in Our Bodies, Heike Peckruhn offers historical and cultural comparisons, showing how sensory experience may order normalcy, social status, or communal belonging. Ultimately, she argues that scholars who appeal to the importance of bodily experiences need to acquire a robust and nuanced understanding of how sensory perceptions and interactions are cultural and theological acts of making meaning.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-06-15
Mått:155 x 236 x 33 mm
Vikt:567 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:AAR Academy Series
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780190280925

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Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Heike Peckruhn is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Daemen College in Amherst, New York.

Recensioner i media

Given the danger of body theology slipping into a merely metaphorical use of body, or being used to theorize about body rather than within our bodies, Peckruhn's continued return to sensory experiences, scents, movements, and bodily orientations is most helpful. This is perhaps the dimension of her book that is most inspiring as an example for how we do theology as embodied beings, making theological sense in our sensory experiences.

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments Part ONE: Bodies and TheologiesChapter 1: Bodily Experience and Constructive TheologyChapter 2: Situating Feminist Theologies Phenomenologically Part TWO: Bodily Perceptual OrientationsChapter 3: Moving Through Experiencing GenderChapter 4: Sedimentation of Habits and Orienting ExperiencesChapter 5: Language and Perception of NormalcyConclusion Part THREE: Perceiving Body TheologyChapter 6: Revisiting Body Theology ApproachesChapter 7: Orienting Familiar Body TheologiesChapter 8: Sensing Futurities To ContinueBibliography