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Sensational Religion

Sensory cultures in material practice

  • Paperback
  • 832 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 3.8 cm

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The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book explores the interpretive worlds that inform religious practice and derive from sensory phenomena. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here ask, How have people used and valued sensory data? How have they shaped their material and immaterial worlds to encourage or discourage certain kinds or patterns of sensory experience? How have they framed the sensual capacities of images and objects to license a range of behaviors, including iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of religion embedded in secularization theory, editor Sally Promey proposes a fundamental reorientation in understanding the personal, social, political, and cultural work accomplished in religion's sensory and material practice. "Sensational Religion" refocuses scholarly attention on the robust material entanglements often discounted by modernity's metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human bodies, behaviors, affects, and beliefs.
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  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Yale University Press

  • Published

    August 2014

  • Weight

    1762g

  • Page Count

    832

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 3.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780300187359

  • ISBN-10

    0300187351

  • Eden Code

    4264671

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