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Sensational Religion

Sensory Cultures in Material Practice

by Sally M. Promey

  • Paperback
  • 720 pages
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • 17.9 x 25 x 3.3 cm

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The result of a collaborative, multiyear project, this groundbreaking book investigates the dynamic constellation of religion, sensation, and materiality, exploring the interpretive worlds of sensory phenomena in material practices of religions. Under the rubric of "making sense," the studies assembled here consider how people have 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.

  • Author

    Sally M. Promey

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Yale University Press

  • Published

    May 2017

  • Weight

    1506g

  • Page Count

    720

  • Dimensions

    17.9 x 25 x 3.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780300227086

  • ISBN-10

    0300227086

  • Eden Code

    4490484

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