Sensing the Sacred: Religious Experience, Somatic Inversions, and the Religious Education of Attention
Sociology of religion April 2, 2021 Daniel Winchester, Michal Pagis
While previous work has focused largely on discourse, contemporary sociological research has started to examine how the embodied, sensory dimensions of religious practice matter in the construction of religious experience. This paper contributes to this development by drawing sociological attention to the religious cultivation of a particular class of embodied experiences: somatic inversions....