Sally M. Promey is professor of American studies and professor of religious studies (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Yale University); and professor of religion and visual culture (Yale Institute of Sacred Music). She is founding director of the Center for the Study of Material and Visual Cultures of Religion (mavcor.yale.edu).
“Sensational Religion blazes a trail in sensory culture studies.
Sally Promey has brought together prominent scholars from varied
disciplines to examine multisensory religious experiences, focusing
on corporeal perception and bodily practices across continents,
from historical periods to the present.”—Carolyn Dean, University
of California, Santa Cruz
*Carolyn Dean*
“Sensational Religion is more landmark than compendium. It
suggests just how far the study of religion in all its sensuous,
material density has come over the last two decades—not only in
Religious Studies, but also in History, Anthropology, American
Studies, and beyond.”—Leigh Eric Schmidt, Washington University in
St. Louis
*Leigh Eric Schmidt*
“Promey’s volume makes a significant contribution that will be
transformative and lasting. The clarity of expression of the
essays, the compelling quality of the material addressed, and the
rigor of each author’s analysis make this an exciting and
invigorating read. It is hard to imagine a humanistic discipline
that would not have interest in this volume.”—Rachael Z. DeLue,
Princeton University
*Rachael Z. DeLue*
“A monumental achievement. The wide-ranging essays in this
brilliant and authoritative anthology will transform thinking
across several fields -- not only religious studies and sensory
studies, but also studies of aesthetics, imperialism, ethnicity,
modernity, and materiality.”—Jennifer L. Roberts, Harvard
University
*Jennifer L. Roberts*
"At the busy crossroads of debates on secularism,
post-structuralist work on embodiment and subjectivity, sensory
cultural studies and the philosophical turn to the materiality and
agency of things, we find this brilliant collection of 37 essays on
Sensational Religion. Their empirical robustness and theoretical
sophistication assures that the analysis of religion remains on the
crucial, cutting edge for understanding social life.”—Angela Zito,
Center for Religion and Media
*Angela Zito*
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