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Sensual Religion demonstrates the value of paying attention to the senses and materials in lived religion and also leads the way for improved studies of religion as sensuality. Each of the five senses - vision, hearing, taste, touch and smell - will be covered by two chapters, the first historical and the second contemporary. The historical discussions focus on the sensuality of religion in ancient Greece, Samaria, Rome and Byzantium - including reflections on their value for understanding other historical and contemporary contexts. Chapters with a contemporary focus engage with Chinese, African-Brazilian, Sikh, First Nations and Metis, and Spanish Catholic religious lives and activities. Beyond the rich case studies, each chapter offers perspectives and arguments about better ways of approaching lived, material and performative religion - or sensual religion. Historical and ethnographic critical and methodological expertise is presented in ways that will inspire and enable readers to apply, refine and improve on their practice of the study of religions. In particular, our intention is to foreground the senses and sensuality as a critical issue in understanding religion and to radically improve multi- and inter-disciplinary research and teaching about the lived realities of religious people in this sensual world.
Contents
Introduction
Graham Harvey
Smell
1. A Pleasing Odour for Yahweh: The Smell of Sacrifices on Mount Gerizim and in the Hebrew Bible
Anne Katrine de Hemmer, University of Copenhagen and University of Helsinki
2. Wafting Incense and Heavenly Foods: The Importance of Smell in Chinese Religion
Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest University
Taste
3. The Taste of Religion in the Roman World
Zena Kamash, Royal Holloway, University of London
4. Eating Myths: Religion Stated in Food Language
Patricia Rodrigues de Souza, Pontifical University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Sight
5. Sight and the Byzantine Icon
Angeliki Lymberopoulou, The Open University
6. `Seeing' my Beloved: Darsan and the Sikhi Perspective
Opinderjit Kaur Takhar, University of Wolverhampton
Hearing
7. Resounding Mysteries: Sound and Silence in the Eleusinian Soundscape
Georgina Petridou, Liverpool University
8. Indigenous Song, the Sacred, and the Senses
Byron Dueck, The Open University
Touch
9. The Texture of the Gift: Religious Touching in the Greco-Roman World
Jessica Hughes
10. Touching, Crafting, Knowing: Religious Artefacts and the Fetish within Animism
Amy Whitehead, University of Wales Trinity St David
