Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the human senses (smell, touch, taste, hearing, smell, and proprioception) through the lenses of practical theology and pastoral care. It focuses on each of the senses independently and through specific religious practices.

Jennifer Baldwin is Executive Director of Grounding Flight Wellness Center. She is the editor of Sensing Sacred: Exploring the Human Senses in Practical Theology and Pastoral Care (2016) and Embracing the Ivory Tower and Stained Glass Window: A Festschrift in Honor of Archbishop Antje Jackelen (2015).

Introduction: Embodied Knowing, Embodied Theology: What Happened to the Body? Bonnie Miller-McLemore
I. Exploring the Senses
1. Smelling Remembrance, Martha Jacobi
2. Embodying Christ, Touching Others, Shirley Guider
3. Savoring Taste as Religious Praxis: Where Individual and Social Intimacy Converge, Stephanie Arel
4. Embodied, Akroatic Hearing and Presence as Spiritual Practice, Jennifer Baldwin
5. Devotional Looking and the Possibilities of Free Associative Sight, Sonia Waters
6. Knowing Through Moving: African Embodied Epistemologies, Emmanuel Y. Lartey
II. Sensing Religious Practices
7. Use of a Hot Tub as Spiritual Practice: Three Decades of Daily Baptism by Immersion, John Carr
8. Word Made Flesh: Using Visual Textuality of Sign Languages to Construct Religious Meaning and Identity, Jason Hays
9. A Laying on of Hands: Black Feminist Intimations of the Divine and Healing Touch in Religious Practice, Christina Davis
10. Have We Lost Our Taste? Caring for Black Bodies Through Food, Kenya Tuttle
11. Holy Transitional and Transcendent Smells: Aromatherapy as an Adjunctive support in Pastoral Care and Counseling, Jennifer Baldwin