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Her Preaching Body: Conversations about Identity, Agency, and Embodiment among Contemporary Female Preachers - Softcover

McCullough, Amy P.

 
9781498291637: Her Preaching Body: Conversations about Identity, Agency, and Embodiment among Contemporary Female Preachers
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1498291635 ISBN 13: 9781498291637
Publisher: Cascade Books, 2018

Synopsis

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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About the Author

Amy P. McCullough is the Senior Minister at Grace United Methodist Church in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Publisher
Cascade Books
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1498291635
ISBN 13 
9781498291637
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
188