A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion.
A History of Religion in 51/2 Objects takes a fresh and much-needed approach to the study of that contentious yet vital area of human culture: religion. Arguing that religion must be understood in the first instance as deriving from rudimentary human experiences, from lived, embodied practices, S. Brent Plate asks us to put aside, for the moment, questions of belief and abstract ideas. Instead, beginning with the desirous, incomplete human body, he...
A leading scholar explores the importance of physical objects and sensory experience in the practice of religion.