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By Sally Promey,Sally M. Promey

The results of a collaborative, multiyear undertaking, this groundbreaking booklet explores the interpretive worlds that tell spiritual perform and derive from sensory phenomena.

Under the rubric of "making sense," the reviews assembled the following ask, How have humans used and valued sensory info? How have they formed their fabric and immaterial worlds to inspire or discourage yes types or styles of sensory adventure? How have they framed the sensual capacities of pictures and gadgets to license a variety of behaviors, together with iconoclasm, censorship, and accusations of blasphemy or sacrilege? Exposing the dematerialization of faith embedded in secularization thought, editor Sally Promey proposes a basic reorientation in figuring out the non-public, social, political, and cultural paintings entire in religion’s sensory and fabric perform. Sensational Religion refocuses scholarly awareness at the strong fabric entanglements frequently discounted by way of modernity’s metaphysic and on their inextricable connections to human our bodies, behaviors, impacts, and beliefs.

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