Religion and Touch (häftad)
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Häftad (Paperback / softback)
Språk
Engelska
Serie
Religion and the Senses
Antal sidor
296
Utgivningsdatum
2021-09-15
Förlag
Equinox Publishing Ltd
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234 x 156 x 16 mm
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418 g
ISBN
9781800500334

Religion and Touch

av Christina Welch, Amy Whitehead, Amy Whitehouse
Häftad,  Engelska, 2021-09-15
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Religion is, at its very root, a sensual and often tactile affair. From genuflections, prayer, dance, and eating, to tattooing, wearing certain garments or objects, lighting candles and performing other rituals, religions of all descriptions involve regular bodily commitments which are mediated by acts of touch. Contributors to this volume have isolated the 'sense of touch' from the general sensorium as a particular 'sense tool' from which to creatively innovate and operationalize fresh concepts, theories, and methods in relation to a diverse range of case studies in Africa, South America, Polynesia, Europe, and South and Southeast Asia. Common and overlapping themes include how touch mediates direct physical (often deliberate) contact between physical bodies (human and other than human) and the things that are crafted, blessed, related with, engaged with, or worn. Understanding touch as the vehicle to alternative forms of knowledge-making in specific religious contexts is the driving force behind the contributions to this collection. The volume argues that touch is not only an intrinsic part of religion but the principal facilitating medium through which religion, religious encounters and performances take place. The diverse contexts presented here signal how investigations that centralise the body and the senses can produce nuanced, culturally specific knowledges and allow for the development of new definitions for lived religion. By placing both 'body' and the sense of touch at the centre of investigations, the volume asserts that material practice and bodily sensation are lived religion.
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Christina Welch, Amy Whitehead, Amy Whitehouse

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Christina Welch is an interdisciplinary neurodiverse scholar and Reader in Theology, Religion and Philosophy at the University of Winchester (UK), where she leads a Masters degree in Death, Religion and Culture. Amy R. Whitehead is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at Massey University in Aotearoa, New Zealand, with a background in the Study or Religions. She specialises in ritual, NRM's, and the material and performance cultures of religions.

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