A sociology of religious emotion
This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda. It challenges a tendency to over-emphasise rational aspects of religion, and rehabilitates its embodied, visceral and affective dimensions. Against the view that religious emotion is a purely pri...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford University Press
[2010]
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Reviews: | A Sociology of Religious Emotion (2012) (Corrigan, John)
Chronique sur l'étude du religieux contemporain (2013) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Religion
/ Emotion
/ Religious sociology
B Religion / Emotion / Religious behavior / Religious sociology |
| Further subjects: | B
Religion and sociology
B Emotions Religious aspects B Emotions Religious aspects |
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| Summary: | This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda. It challenges a tendency to over-emphasise rational aspects of religion, and rehabilitates its embodied, visceral and affective dimensions. Against the view that religious emotion is a purely private matter, it offers a new framework which shows how religious emotions arise in the varied interactions between human agents and religious communities, human agents and objects of devotion, and communities and sacred symbols. It presents parallels and contrasts between religious emotions in European and American history, in other cultures, and in contemporary western societies. By taking emotions seriously, A Sociology of Religious Emotion sheds new light on the power of religion to shape fundamental human orientations and motivations: hopes and fears, joys and sorrows, loves and hatreds. |
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| Item Description: | Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 233-259 ***Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke.***Unchanged reprints that were published later are included here.*** |
| ISBN: | 0199655774 |