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Meaning in Our Bodies

Sensory Experience as Constructive Theological Imagination. AAR Academy Series

By (author) Heike Peckruhn
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York, United States
Published: 15th Jun 2017
Dimensions: w 156mm h 234mm d 19mm
Weight: 634g
ISBN-10: 0190280921
ISBN-13: 9780190280925
Barcode No: 9780190280925
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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.

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Given the danger of body theology slipping into a merely metaphorical use of body, or being used to theorize about body rather than within our bodies, Peckruhn's continued return to sensory experiences, scents, movements, and bodily orientations is most helpful. This is perhaps the dimension of her book that is most inspiring as an example for how we do theology as embodied beings, making theological sense in our sensory experiences. * Stefanie Knauss, Reading Religion *