Goddess of Olfaction

Goddess of Olfaction

Author: Mat Chaudhry

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2016-10-12

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781539078470

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Contrary to western popular perception, Kamasutra is not intended to be used merely as an instrument for satisfying our desires. It presents itself as a guide to love, family life and art of eating good food. Eating has become a forgotten art. One of the best ways to relish the food on your plate is to talk about it. When a fellow diner describes the delicate touch of an exotic spice melting on their taste buds, like a low note in a symphony, that was wrapped deep within the taste of an ingredient, you have a chance to experience your food in a different way. Next time you sit down to have a meal with friends or with a date, enliven your dining experience by adding a slice of history and a portion of story to the food you eat. 'Kamasutra of the Dining Table' is unlike any other cookbook that you will find. It is more than a set of instructions. Indeed, this book is not about recipes. It is about the stories of the recipes. The stories in this book may be fact, or they may be fiction, but each is what gives the recipe its true flavor. This collection will also expand your knowledge of food and the world, as well as sharpening your skills in the kitchen.


The Linguistics of Olfaction

The Linguistics of Olfaction

Author: Łukasz Jędrzejowski

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2021-04-26

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13: 9027260176

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This volume presents novel cross-linguistic insights into how olfactory experiences are expressed in typologically (un-)related languages both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. It contains a general introduction to the topic and fourteen chapters based on philological investigation and thorough fieldwork data from Basque, Beja, Fon, Formosan languages, Hebrew, Indo-European languages, Japanese, Kartvelian languages, Purepecha, and languages of northern Vanuatu. Topics discussed in the individual chapters involve, inter alia, lexical olfactory repertoires and naming strategies, non-literal meanings of olfactory expressions and their semantic change, reduplication, colexification, mimetics, and language contact. The findings provide the reader with a range of fascinating facts about perception description, contribute to a deeper understanding of how olfaction as an understudied sense is encoded linguistically, and offer new theoretical perspectives on how some parts of our cognitive system are verbalized cross-culturally. This volume is highly relevant to lexical typologists, historical linguists, grammarians, and anthropologists.


The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion

The Lost Sheep in Philosophy of Religion

Author: Blake Hereth

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2019-09-04

Total Pages: 367

ISBN-13: 0429663552

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Contemporary research in philosophy of religion is dominated by traditional problems such as the nature of evil, arguments against theism, issues of foreknowledge and freedom, the divine attributes, and religious pluralism. This volume instead focuses on unrepresented and underrepresented issues in the discipline. The essays address how issues like race, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, feminist and pantheist conceptions of the divine, and nonhuman animals connect to existing issues in philosophy of religion. By staking out new avenues for future research, this book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in analytic philosophy of religion and analytic philosophical theology.


The Ephemeral History of Perfume

The Ephemeral History of Perfume

Author: Holly Dugan

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2011-11-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1421404222

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In contrast to the other senses, smell has long been thought of as too elusive, too fleeting for traditional historical study. Holly Dugan disagrees, arguing that there are rich accounts documenting how men and women produced, consumed, and represented perfumes and their ephemeral effects. She delves deeply into the cultural archive of olfaction to explore what a sense of smell reveals about everyday life in early modern England. In this book, Dugan focuses on six important scents—incense, rose, sassafras, rosemary, ambergris, and jasmine. She links these smells to the unique spaces they inhabited—churches, courts, contact zones, plague-ridden households, luxury markets, and pleasure gardens—and the objects used to dispense them. This original approach provides a rare opportunity to study how early modern men and women negotiated the environment in their everyday lives and the importance of smell to their daily actions. Dugan defines perfume broadly to include spices, flowers, herbs, animal parts, trees, resins, and other ingredients used to produce artificial scents, smokes, fumes, airs, balms, powders, and liquids. In researching these Renaissance aromas, Dugan uncovers the extraordinary ways, now largely lost, that people at the time spoke and wrote about smell: objects “ambered, civited, expired, fetored, halited, resented, and smeeked” or were described as “breathful, embathed, endulced, gracious, halited, incensial, odorant, pulvil, redolent, and suffite.” A unique contribution to early modern studies, The Ephemeral History of Perfume is an unparalleled study of olfaction in the Renaissance, a period in which new scents and important cultural theories about smell were developed. Dugan’s inspired analysis of a wide range of underexplored sources makes available to scholars a remarkable wealth of information on the topic.


Sensing Sacred

Sensing Sacred

Author: Jennifer Baldwin

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-08-30

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1498531245

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Sensing Sacred is an edited volume that explores the critical intersection of “religion” and “body” through the religious lens of practical theology, with an emphasis on sensation as the embodied means in which human beings know themselves, others, and the divine in the world. The manuscript argues that all human interaction and practice, including religious praxis, engages “body” through at least one of the human senses (touch, smell, hearing, taste, sight, kinestics/proprioception). Unfortunately, body—and, more specifically and ironically, sensation—is eclipsed in contemporary academic scholarship that is inherently bent toward the realm of theory and ideas. This is unfortunate because it neglects bodies, physical or communal, as the repository and generator of culturally conditioned ideas and theory. It is ironic because all knowledge transmission minimally requires several senses including sight, touch, and hearing. Sensing Sacred is organized into two parts. The first section devotes a chapter to each human sense as an avenue of accessing religious experience; while the second section explores religious practices as they specifically focus on one or more senses. The overarching aim of the volume is to explicitly highlight each sense and utilize the theoretical lenses of practical theology to bring to vivid life the connections between essential sensation and religious thinking and practice.


God of Wonders

God of Wonders

Author: David A. Steen

Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0828025118

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Explore the wonders of God¿s creation with biologist David A. Steen, and discover the intricacies of things we usually take for granted: taste, gravity, skin, bacteria, trees, DNA, stars, cellular reproduction, and many more. Are you ready to experience an overwhelming sense of awe? God¿s creative genius is simply breathtaking.


Messengers of God

Messengers of God

Author: Arthur O. Roberts

Publisher: Barclay Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1594980063

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Discover more about the way in which hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, and touching are receptors of God's presence in your life.


The Aroma of Righteousness

The Aroma of Righteousness

Author: Deborah A. Green

Publisher: Penn State Press

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0271037679

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"Studies aroma in Jewish life and literature in Palestine in the late Roman and early Byzantine periods. Uses the history and material culture of perfume and incense as a lens to view daily activities"--Provided by publisher.


Sensing God

Sensing God

Author: Roger Ferlo

Publisher: Cowley Publications

Published: 2001-11-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1461624126

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Think of all the senses you use when you pick up a Bible. What do you see? What do you smell? What do you touch? Reading scripture attentively is more than a matter of sight. Most of us have been taught to think about God in visual terms, yet the very subject matter of scripture—our relationship with the fullness of God—makes irresistible demands upon all of our senses if we are to begin to understand anything about God. In these meditations on stories from the New Testament, Roger Ferlo shows us how to read the Bible in a “full-bodied” way, with all the senses attuned. For just as a printed recipe cannot substitute for a mouth-watering feast, so the Bible must be brought to life through the senses. Its stories must be seen, heard, touched, smelled, and tasted. Only then, Ferlo believes, can we truly begin to encounter in our lives the Word of God to us in scripture. Sensing God is one of our series of Cowley Cloister Books: smaller format, gift edition books designed for meditative and devotional reading.


Sensing the Past

Sensing the Past

Author: Mark Michael Smith

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780520254954

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"Smith's history of the sensate is destined to precipitate a revolution in our understanding of the sensibilities that underpinned the mentalities of past epochs."--David Howes, author of Sensual Relations: Engaging the Senses in Culture and Social Theory "Mark M. Smith presents a far-ranging essay on the history of the senses that serves simultaneously as a good introduction to the historiography. If one feels in danger of sensory overload from this growing body of scholarship, Smith's piece is a useful preventive."--Leigh E. Schmidt, author of Restless Souls: The Making of American Spirituality "This is a masterful overview. The history of the senses has been a frontier field for a while now. Mark Smith draws together what we know, with an impressive sensory range, and encourages further work. A really exciting survey."--Peter N. Stearns, author of American Fear: The Causes and Consequences of High Anxiety "Who would ever have guessed that a book on the history of the senses--seeing, hearing, touching, tasting, and smelling--could be informative, thought-provoking, and, at the same time, most entertaining? Ranging in both time and locale, Mark Smith's Sensing the Past makes even the philosophy about the senses from ancient times to now both learned and exciting. This work will draw scholars into under-recognized subjects and lay readers into a world we simply but unwisely take for granted."--Bertram Wyatt-Brown, author of Southern Honor: Ethics and Behavior in the Old South "Mark M. Smith has a good record of communicating his research to a broad constituency within and beyond the academy . . . This will be required reading for anyone addressing sensory history."--Penelope Gouk, author of Music, Science and Natural Magic in Seventeenth Century England "This is a fine cultural history of the body, which takes Western and Eastern traditions and their texts quite seriously. Smith views a history of the senses not only from 'below' but places it squarely in the historical imagination. It will be of interest to a wide range of readers."--Sander L. Gilman, author of Difference and Pathology