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Meaning in our bodies : sensory experience as constructive theological imagination / Heike Peckruhn.
LIBRA BL65.B63 P43 2017
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peckruhn, Heike, author.
- Series:
- American Academy of Religion academy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Religious aspects.
- Human body.
- Senses and sensation--Religious aspects.
- Senses and sensation.
- Experience (Religion).
- Experience.
- Philosophical theology.
- Physical Description:
- x, 314 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.
- Contents:
- Part 1 Bodies and Theologies
- 1 Experience and Constructive Theology 5
- Representation of Difference in Experience 9
- Constructive Body Theology 12
- 2 Situating Feminist Theologies Phenomenologically 28
- Situating Bodily Experience and Perception in Feminist Theology 29
- Conceiving Perception 42
- Empiricism Described and Critically Analyzed 46
- Intellectualism Described and Critically Analyzed 64
- Situating the Theological Sense Regarding Perception 76
- Moving Beyond the Empiricism-Intellectualism Spectrum 80
- Part 2 Bodily Perceptual Orientations
- Phenomenological Terrains and Traces 91
- Bodily Perceptual Orientation in the World as Condition of Being 98
- Being in the World 99
- 3 Moving Through Experiencing Gender 107
- Bodily Intentionality and Movement 107
- Relations of Intentionality 115
- Body Schema and Tacit Knowledges 119
- Perceptual Habituation 121
- Perceptual Gender Lines 127
- Perceiving Aligned Sexualities and Perversions 131
- Sensory Interrelations and Differences 138
- 4 Sedimentation of Habits and Orienting Experiences 146
- Perceptual Dimensions and Sedimented Habits of Perception 149
- Perceptual Experience of Race/Perceptually Experiencing as Racialized 153
- Sensory Interdependencies/Interplays in Perceiving Raced Bodies 162
- Sensory Interdependencies/Interplays and Differences in "Racial" Perception 169
- 5 Language and Perception of Normalcy 175
- Language in/as Bodily Perceptual Orientation 176
- Language and Bodily Perceptual Orientation of/to "Normal" 186
- Normal Sediments 187
- Historical Perceptions and Habitual Sedimentation of Normalcy 197
- Different Perceptions of Wellness/Illness Connected to "Normalcy" 206
- Conclusion 216
- Part 3 Perceiving Body Theology Commitments 228
- 6 Revisiting Body Theology Approaches 233
- Touching the Strength of Carter Heyward 234
- Aligning with Indecency and Marcella Althaus-Reid 244
- 7 Orienting Familiar Body Theologies 256
- Making Home in New Spaces 257
- Body Theologies at Home 268
- 8 Sensing Futurities 283
- To Continue 290.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Peckruhn, Heike. Meaning in our bodies.
- ISBN:
- 9780190280925
- 0190280921
- OCLC:
- 962552075
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