Abstract
An overview of the senses in the study of religion and religious encounter is provided, along with reflections on the ways in which various specific senses were imagined to serve as modes of communication between human beings and between humans and transcendent beings. How the individual case studies collected in this volume inform such a project and further research on religion, the senses, and the role of the senses in religious encounter is a core concern of this introductory essay. We end by suggesting new directions for additional research for an integrated and systematic examination of how senses shape and are used in human encounters with the transcendent and the (human) religious Other.
Highlights
ౖ൰ൠಧஐഌ senses, taste, olfaction, smell, touch, visual, hearing, grammar, language. In his Scented Ape, David Stoddart has argued for an integrative approach to the study of [1] smell, combing biology and anthropology, as he explored the functions of smell, ranging from practical communication regarding sexual readiness to the use of perfume to allure and incense to express worship of the divine
It is this communicative function, not merely of smell but of most of the senses, on which we intend to focus in this volume
Respective research is related to the body,1 religion and aesthetics (German: Religionsästhetik2), and ‘material religion.’3 It is impossible to give a representative overview on the topic
Summary
ଈ୪ഌഝଈഝ An overview of the senses in the study of religion and religious encounter is provided, along with reflections on the ways in which various specific senses were imagined to serve as modes of communication between human beings and between humans and transcendent beings. How the individual case studies collected in this volume inform such a project and further research on religion, the senses, and the role of the senses in religious encounter is a core concern of this introductory essay. We end by suggesting new directions for additional research for an integrated and systematic examination of how senses shape and are used in human encounters with the transcendent and the (human) religious Other. ౖ൰ൠಧஐഌ senses, taste, olfaction, smell, touch, visual, hearing, grammar, language
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