Her Preaching Body
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Her Preaching Body

Conversations about Identity, Agency, and Embodiment among Contemporary Female Preachers

  1. 188 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Her Preaching Body

Conversations about Identity, Agency, and Embodiment among Contemporary Female Preachers

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: Questions about Bodies
  4. Chapter 1: Living as a Body: Theories of Embodiment
  5. Chapter 2: A Bodily History of Female Preaching
  6. Chapter 3: My Clothes Teach and Preach
  7. Chapter 4: Looking Like Me:Self-Expression through Adornments
  8. Chapter 5: The Natural Performance and the Female Preacher
  9. Chapter 6: Preaching Pregnant
  10. Chapter 7: The Embodied Preacher: Appearances and Dys-Appearances
  11. Conclusion: Embodied Preaching, Embodied Faith
  12. Appendix A: Description of Research
  13. Appendix B: Question Guide for One-on-One Interviews
  14. Bibliography