Tasting fire: Affective turn in Qur’anic depictions of divine punishment
Several Qur’anic passages suggest humans will experience God’s punishments through their sense of "taste." While the Qur’an conveys some of the ways that taste functions and relays knowledge in both earthly and paradisiacal realms, it is in the context of punishment that taste delivers the...
| Autres titres: | Special Issue: The Qur'an and affect |
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Equinox Publishing
[2019]
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| Dans: |
Body and religion
Année: 2019, Volume: 3, Numéro: 1, Pages: 5-26 |
| Sujets / Chaînes de mots-clés standardisés: | B
Koran
/ Dieu
/ Peine
/ Goût
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| RelBib Classification: | AG Vie religieuse BJ Islam NBQ Eschatologie |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Senses
B Qur'an Taste B Affect B Body |
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Volltext (Verlag) Volltext (doi) |
| Résumé: | Several Qur’anic passages suggest humans will experience God’s punishments through their sense of "taste." While the Qur’an conveys some of the ways that taste functions and relays knowledge in both earthly and paradisiacal realms, it is in the context of punishment that taste delivers the divine message more forcefully and directly than the other senses. The responses sparked by the horror of God’s pressing abhorrent flavors on one’s tongue, and down one’s throat, prompted the most strident disbeliever to cultivate a more righteous and receptive character, so that s/he may ‘taste mercy. |
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| ISSN: | 2057-5831 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Body and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1558/bar.16118 |