The Skin of Religion : Aesthetic Mediations of the Sacred

Plate explores the location of the sensual human body as a fertile field for understanding religious experience. The aesthetics of sense perception is itself a mediated operation, changing the meaning of experience above and beyond intellectual insights. To begin, he outlines some of the meanings of...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cross currents (New Rochelle, N.Y.) N.Y.), 2012-06, Vol.62 (2), p.162-180
1. Verfasser: Brent Plate, S.
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:Plate explores the location of the sensual human body as a fertile field for understanding religious experience. The aesthetics of sense perception is itself a mediated operation, changing the meaning of experience above and beyond intellectual insights. To begin, he outlines some of the meanings of a "skinscape" and the role of the sensual body in the production of sacred space. He revives the understanding of aesthetics as sense perception, suggesting the senses as boundary markers that define the space of the body, which in turn defines social and sacred space. Following from this, a further investigation of the skin of religion suggests that it consists of two components: sense perception and the mediated, sensational fonns that make meaning out of religious objects, sights, shapes, and sounds. In conclusion then, he offers some notes toward an aesthetic-sensual construction of sacred space.
ISSN:0011-1953
1939-3881
DOI:10.1111/j.1939-3881.2012.00228.x