Sensational ReligionThe 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. |
Contents
1840 | |
1865 | |
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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