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As a form of knowing-how, religious knowledge is often embodied knowledge: it activates and relies on our various sensory modalities. Religious rituals are powerful means of producing such knowledge. The knowledge that religious practices convey may also be tacit knowledge, which cannot be fully articulated in words.
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Dawes, G.W. (2016). Embodied Knowledge. In: Religion, Philosophy and Knowledge . Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-43500-8_8
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