Sensing Worship
Feeling Our Way through Sunday
Will be published approx. on 18. December 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
142 pages
978-90-04-72920-9 (ISBN)
Description
Sensing Worship delves into the sensory experience of worship in white, mainline Protestant churches, exploring the often intangible "energy" that shapes how worship feels. Drawing on affect theory, emotion studies, and practical theology, the book uncovers the embodied, social, and non-representational dimensions of worship that influence individuals' engagement with liturgy. Through storytelling and analysis, the author investigates how these elements circulate among worshippers, offering new insights into how the atmosphere of worship can be both shaped and harnessed. Sensing Worship presents a fresh perspective on the connections between feeling, practice, and theology in contemporary worship.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-72920-9 (9789004729209)
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Person
Rev. Allie Utley, PhD, Assistant Professor of Liturgy and Practical Theology at Phillips Theological Seminary. Her research focuses on preaching and worship, with particular attention to the arts, affect theory, and disability studies in liturgical contexts. A minister and scholar, her work explores the intersection of embodied experience and communal worship practices.