HER PREACHING BODY : conversations about identity, agency, and embodiment among contemporary ... female preachers /
McCullough, Amy P.
HER PREACHING BODY : conversations about identity, agency, and embodiment among contemporary ... female preachers / Amy P. McCullough. - [Place of publication not identified], CASCADE Books, 2018. - 1 online resource
Introduction: Questions about bodies -- Living as a body: theories of embodiment -- A bodily history of female preaching -- My clothes teach and preach -- Looking like me: self-expression through adornments -- The natural performance and the female preacher -- Preaching pregnant -- The embodied preacher: appearances and dys-appearances -- Conclusion: Embodied preaching, embodied faith.
The preacher's body is a tool for proclamation, a vehicle by which a sermon comes to life. Female preachers, engaged in a task not long their own, know well the added attention directed to their physicality. They can experience ordinary decisions about attire, accessories, hairstyles, and movement as complex, and occasionally precarious, choices around how to bring flesh to their sermons. They can also experience the extraordinary power of their bodies, when materiality weighs in on the message. McCullough explores the every-Sunday bodily decisions of contemporary female preachers, with an eye to uncovering the meanings about body, preaching, and God alive underneath. Ultimately, she argues for a renewed understanding of embodiment, in which one's living body, inescapably intertwined with her preaching, becomes the avenue for greater knowledge about how to preach and deeper insight into the faith professed. --
9781498291644 1498291643
Women clergy.
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Preaching.
Clergé féminin.
Corps humain--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Prédication.
RELIGION--Christian Church--History.
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity
Preaching
Women clergy
BV676
270.092
HER PREACHING BODY : conversations about identity, agency, and embodiment among contemporary ... female preachers / Amy P. McCullough. - [Place of publication not identified], CASCADE Books, 2018. - 1 online resource
Introduction: Questions about bodies -- Living as a body: theories of embodiment -- A bodily history of female preaching -- My clothes teach and preach -- Looking like me: self-expression through adornments -- The natural performance and the female preacher -- Preaching pregnant -- The embodied preacher: appearances and dys-appearances -- Conclusion: Embodied preaching, embodied faith.
The preacher's body is a tool for proclamation, a vehicle by which a sermon comes to life. Female preachers, engaged in a task not long their own, know well the added attention directed to their physicality. They can experience ordinary decisions about attire, accessories, hairstyles, and movement as complex, and occasionally precarious, choices around how to bring flesh to their sermons. They can also experience the extraordinary power of their bodies, when materiality weighs in on the message. McCullough explores the every-Sunday bodily decisions of contemporary female preachers, with an eye to uncovering the meanings about body, preaching, and God alive underneath. Ultimately, she argues for a renewed understanding of embodiment, in which one's living body, inescapably intertwined with her preaching, becomes the avenue for greater knowledge about how to preach and deeper insight into the faith professed. --
9781498291644 1498291643
Women clergy.
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity.
Preaching.
Clergé féminin.
Corps humain--Aspect religieux--Christianisme.
Prédication.
RELIGION--Christian Church--History.
RELIGION--Christianity--History.
Human body--Religious aspects--Christianity
Preaching
Women clergy
BV676
270.092