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Zusatztext 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. Informationen zum Autor Heike Peckruhn is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Daemen College in Amherst, New York. Klappentext In Meaning in Our Bodies, Heike Peckruhn 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Part ONE: Bodies and Theologies Chapter 1: Bodily Experience and Constructive Theology Chapter 2: Situating Feminist Theologies Phenomenologically Part TWO: Bodily Perceptual Orientations Chapter 3: Moving Through Experiencing Gender Chapter 4: Sedimentation of Habits and Orienting Experiences Chapter 5: Language and Perception of Normalcy Conclusion Part THREE: Perceiving Body Theology Chapter 6: Revisiting Body Theology Approaches Chapter 7: Orienting Familiar Body Theologies Chapter 8: Sensing Futurities To Continue Bibliography ...
