Sensual Religion - Religion and the Five Senses - Graham Harvey
Introduction
Sensual Religion - Religion and the Five Senses - Graham Harvey
Graham Harvey [+]
Open University
Graham Harvey is Emeritus Professor of Religious Studies at the Open University, UK. His research is concerned with the performance and rhetoric of identities among Jews, Pagans and indigenous peoples. He is particularly interested in the 'new animism', embracing relational and material approaches to interactions between humans and the larger than human world. His recent publications include The Handbook of Contemporary Animism(2013) and Food, Sex and Strangers: Understanding Religion as Everyday Life (2013).
Description
Introducing Sensual Religion, this chapter not only summarises themes and issues discussed in the main chapters, but also aims to provoke discussion of relationships between religion and senses, emphasising the doing of religion in bodily and sensual activities. It uses some origins narratives to demonstrate the importance of sensual data in religious narratives and acts.