Movement, smell, vision, and other perceptual experiences are ways of thinking and orienting ourselves in the world. And yet the appeal to experience as resource for theology, though a significant shift in contemporary scholarship, has seldom received nuanced investigation. How do embodied differences like gender, race, disability, and sexuality highlight theological analysis and connect to perceptual experience and theological imagination? In Meaning in Our Bodies, Heike Peckruhn offers historical and cultural comparisons, showing how sensory experience may order normalcy, social status, or communal belonging. Ultimately, she argues that scholars who appeal to the importance of bodily experiences need to acquire a robust and nuanced understanding of how sensory perceptions and interactions are cultural and theological acts of making meaning.
| ISBN: | 9780190280925 |
| Publication date: | 15th June 2017 |
| Author: | Heike (Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Daemen College) Peckruhn |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 328 pages |
| Series: | AAR Academy Series |
| Genres: |
Theology Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships |