Sensational Religion

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Yale University Press, Jun 24, 2014 - Religion - 720 pages
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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Acknowledgments
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PART ONE INHABITATIONS
1865
NineteenthCentury Spiritualist Practices and
The Multisensoriality of Spirits Bodies
Sensation Religion and Contention in Popular Turkish
Production and Possession of
A Religious History of the American Office
DANA E KATZ
Hair Embroidery and Gendered Corporeal Practice
The Jesuit Martyrs of Japan and the Ethics of Sight
INTERLUDE TWO DEVOTIONAL BODIES
On Race and the Body in the Moorish Science Temple
Disability and the Protestant Worship Environment
The Divine Touchability of Dreams
Philosophical Reflections
Lighting Up Pier Paolo Pasolinis Sensational Corpus

INTERLUDE ONE CONTESTED GROUNDS
Alfred Barr and the Remaking of Russian Religious
Listening to the Adhan in a Pluralistic America
Sensory Approaches to the Controversy over Sweet Jesus
The Public the Private and Perceptions of Islamic
PART TWO TRANSGRESSIONS
Church Women Negro Art and
Sensorial Visuality and Coffeehouse Painting in Iran
Piety Barbarism and the Senses in Byzantium
Sensing the Infinite
PART THREE TRANSFORMATIONS
The Case of James Leggs Anatomical Crucifixion
Extirpation of Idolatry and Sensory Experience in SixteenthCentury Mexico
The Sense of Angels
Material Sensory Trace and Nonduality in ChanZen
Railroads and Religious Sensation in the American
Chavíns Great Stones and Kinaesthetic Perception
Spiritual Sensations and Material Transformations in Hawaii Volcanoes
A Conclusion
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