The speaking body: Metaphor and the expression of extraordinary experience

This article explores the relationship between language, experience, and the body. Employing a phenomenological approach that takes the sensory body as its starting point, it focuses on three instances of ‘divine experience’, looking at the ways in which social actors seek to express that experience...

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Main Author: Barnes, Jamie (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: [publisher not identified] [2016]
In: Temenos
Year: 2016, Volume: 52, Issue: 2, Pages: 261-287
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Bodily experience / Language / Experience of God
IxTheo Classification:AA Study of religion
AG Religious life; material religion
CB Christian life; spirituality
Further subjects:B Phenomenology
B Senses
B Auto-ethnography
B Language
B Ontology
B Christian experience
B ‘ontological turn’
B new birth
B Body
B Metaphor
B Being
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