Her Preaching Body: Conversations about Identity, Agency, and Embodiment Among Contemporary Female Preachers (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781498291651)

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.

Author: Amy Peed McCullough
ISBN-10: 1498291651
ISBN-13: 9781498291651
Publisher: Cascade Books
Language: English
Published: 05/16/2018
Pages: 188
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d