This book explores the place of the body and embodied practices in the production and experience of grace in order to generate transformative futures. The authors offer a range of phenomenologies in order to move the philosophical anchoring of phenomenology from an abstracted European tradition into more open and complex experiential sets of understandings. Grace is a sticky word with many layers to it, and the authors explore this complexity through a range of traditions, practices, and autobiographical accounts. The goal is to open a grace-space for reflection and action that is both futures-oriented and enlivening.
1. Phenomenologies of Grace: Introduction.-
2. The Heirs of Tiresias:
Grace, the Uncanny and Transformative Action.-
3. Messy Grace: The Mutant
Futures Program.-
4. Forest Walks and Literary Engagement: Meditations on
Grief, Joy, and a Restorative Politics.-
5. Between Presence and Absence:
Living and Learning Grace in the Face of Death.-
6. Longing for the Great
Facebook in Portuguese: A Translated Phenomenology of Graēa.-
7. Things
Reveal Themselves Passing Away.-
8. Grace: Truth, Travel and Translation.-
9. Being Alive to Mystery.-
10. Designs for Embodiment and Soul: Offerings
for Adult Learners in the Twenty-First Century College Classroom.-
11. A
Phenomenology of Grace: The New Insights.-
12. In Defence of the Quotidian:
Poetry and Life Writing.-
13. Grace Notes: Boundaries and Transgression in
Early Music.-
14. Music and the World of Feeling.-
15. Where Two Rivers
Meet.-
16. Moving, Being Moved and Witnessing Movement.-
17. Systems Sensing:
A case for Embodied, Arts-Based Responses to Complex Problems.-
18. Amazing
Grace: Play with the Poor as a Channel of Blessing.-
19. Grace-Moves: What
WING IT! Performance Ensemble Taught Me About the Relational Nature of
Grace.-
20. Grace Operatives: How the Body Wisdom Changed the World.
Marcus Bussey is Deputy Head, School of Social Sciences at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
Camila Mozzini-Alister is an Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia.
