Touch and American Religions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4299738 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Candy Gunther Brown (0000-0002-3334-418X, Indiana University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 770-783 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion Compass (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00154.x |
| OpenAlex | W1974954201 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 35 |
The sense of touch plays an important role in many American religious practices. Yet dismissals of touch as an inferior mode of perception and reliance on textual sources that ignore touch have shaped research agendas. This essay identifies theories articulated by philosophical phenomenologists, students of ritual and performance studies, historians and anthropologists of art and architecture, neuroscientists, and feminist scholars that envision touch as a unique mode of gaining knowledge about the world and oneself and stimulating ethical behavior by working directly on the emotions to motivate empathetic, compassionate concern for others. The essay suggests how touch-oriented theories can aid the development of research areas in American religions where scholars have already begun fruitful explorations of tactility: studies of religious embodiment and ritual and of pain and its alleviation through divine healing or Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Perception · Sociology · Visual arts · Philosophy · Psychedelics and Drug Studies · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious Tourism and Spaces · Social Psychology · Architecture
Worlds of Sense
Boiling energy
Authentic Fakes
Zen and the Brain
The Varieties of sensory experience
Practicing Protestants
The Senses of Touch
Spiritual, but not Religious
Curanderismo
Genealogies of Religion
Collected Philosophical Papers
Embodiment in Religious Knowledge
Haptics of the heart
Miracles and the Modern Religious Imagination
How Race Is Made
The Religious Encounters of Alfred C. Kinsey
Religion and the Culture of Print in Modern America
The Pulsating Heart and Its Divine Sense Energies
From Tent Meetings and Store-front Healing Rooms to Walmarts and the Internet
Phenomenology of Perception
The triumph of the therapeutic
Body Works
All Things Are Possible
Hearing Things
Our Lady of the Exile
Performance Theory
Ritual
Historical events as transformations of structures
Body/Meaning/Healing
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,3 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2022 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |