[PDF] Sensing Sacred Texts eBook

Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,23 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781781795767

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All the human senses become engaged in ritualizing sacred texts. These essays focus especially on ritualizing the iconic dimension of texts through the senses of sight, touch, kiss, and taste, both directly and in the imagination. Ritualized display of books engages the sense of sight very differently than does reading. Touching gets associated with reading scriptures, but touching also enables using the scripture as an amulet. Eating and consuming texts is a ubiquitous analogy for internalizing the contents of texts by reading and memorization. The idea of textual consumption reflects a widespread tendency to equate humans and written texts by their interiority and exteriority: books and people both have material bodies, yet both seem to contain immaterial ideas. Books thus physically incarnate cultural and religious values, doctrines, beliefs, and ideas. These essays bring theories of comparative scriptures and affect theory to bear on the topic as well as rich ethnographic descriptions of scriptural practices with Jewish, Sikh, Muslim, Christian, Buddhist and modern art and historical accounts of changing practices with sacred texts in ancient and medieval China and Korea, and in ancient Middle Eastern and Mediterranean cultures.

Author : Jennifer Baldwin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 11,1 MB
Release : 2016-08-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1498531245

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Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion” and “body” through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript argues that all human interaction and practice, including religious praxis, engages “body” through at least one of the human senses (touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight, kinestics/proprioception). Unfortunately, body—and, more specifically and ironically, sensation—is eclipsed in contemporary academic scholarship that is inherently bent toward the realm of theory and ideas. This is unfortunate because it neglects bodies, physical or communal, as the repository and generator of culturally conditioned ideas and theory. It is ironic because all knowledge transmission minimally requires several senses including sight, touch, and hearing. Sensing Sacred is organized into two parts. The first section devotes a chapter to each human sense as an avenue of accessing religious experience; while the second section explores religious practices as they specifically focus on one or more senses. The overarching aim of the volume is to explicitly highlight each sense and utilize the theoretical lenses of practical theology to bring to vivid life the connections between essential sensation and religious thinking and practice.

Author : Ninian Smart
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 40,37 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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A well-annotated, impartial anthology of key texts from world religions--including the primitive, ancient, and esoteric alongside the living faiths of both Western and Eastern cultures... The excerpts are grouped by faiths and subclassified by type: sacred narratives, doctrines, rituals, institutional expressions, experience,and ethics...There are good bibliographies at the end of each.A.L.A. Booklist

Author : Joel Clarkson
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 27,90 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1641582081

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"Sensing God is a discovery of Jesus in all of the sensory points embedded into each of us. It shows how the holiest acts in our daily lives are often the simplest: reveling in the beauty of nature; listening to our favorite music; eating a nourishing meal with family. These are potentially heartbeats of a living faith, and when we learn to recognize and respond to God’s goodness in them, it draws us into redemptive participation with Him, the source of all beauty"--Amazon.com.

Author : Justin Bishop
Publisher : Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Incorporated
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 13,84 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781641733205

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"During the pandemic, churches pivoted to online worship. Justin Bishop offers practical guidance and theological reflection to offer help to churches trying to establish and strengthen their digital presence"--

Author : Rufus C. Camphausen
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 1992-06
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780892813513

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Succinctly describes 140 sacred texts, dating from the earliest times to the present, in relation to the cultures that created them.

Author : Jeannine Marie Hanger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,4 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004678263

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Recent scholarship focused on the role of embodiment within cognition and communication reminds us that part of how we “know” is through our physical senses. We only know the softness of a kitten by touching its fur, or the tastiness of bread by eating. How might this influence our understanding of biblical texts, such as Jesus’s claim, “I am the bread of life,” and the invitation to eat? This study explores the I am sayings of John’s Gospel, their sensory elements providing an imaginative entry into the narrative and contributing tangible value to the participatory theology of the Fourth Gospel.

Author : Laurence Freeman
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 49,6 MB
Release : 2015-12-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0281075476

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Those who want to save their life will lose it; and those who lose their life for my sake will find it’ (Matthew 16.25). We often associate Lent with ‘giving something up’, but it is also a good time to begin or to deepen the practice of meditation. Through this ascetic discipline, we enter into the tradition of the Desert Fathers and, as we learn to nurture the silence within, come to experience joy and well-being in every area of our lives. This book is a practical introduction and guide to Christian meditation as taught by Fr John Main and continued through the World Community for Christian Meditation (WCCM). It contains meditation instructions, guidance and support as well as 46 enriching daily reflections on the Gospels, highlighting an aspect of their meaning and their continued relevance for modern living.