A History of Religion in 5½ Objects: Bringing the Spiritual to Its Senses
S. Brent Plate examines religion through five-and-a-half objects, bringing the spiritual to its senses. This history offers a material and sensory approach to understanding religious life, inviting readers to consider how objects and embodied experience shape the ways people encounter and interpret the sacred.
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A History of Religion in 5½ Objects explores religious experience through the perspective of material things.
S. Brent Plate brings attention to the senses and their relationship to spiritual life.
Using objects as a framework, the book considers how the tangible world can help illuminate religion.
Its approach connects the study of religion with history, culture, and everyday sensory experience.
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