Her Preaching Body: Conversations about Identity, Agency, and Embodiment Among Contemporary Female Preachers

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
Publisher: Cascade Books
Published: 05/16/2018
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781498291637

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