Body and Sensation in Religion

This page foregrounds bodily sensation and material practice as religion i.e. bodily practices as a mode of transmitting and receiving religious and spiritual traditions. The abstracts are drawn from several of our religious studies sub-disciplinary collections.

The empirical studies span devotional communities, institutions, new age milieus, and secularized contexts and the methodologies employed include aesthetics of religion, sociology of knowledge, ethnographical and cognitive approaches.

Links go to other topical collections that overlap with corporeality.