Religion and emotion: approaches and interpretations
Brings together twelve essays in the field of emotion studies. This book examines attitudes toward and expressions of emotion in a range of religious traditions and periods. It provides insights to students of comparative religion, anthropology and psychology
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford New York
Oxford University Press
2004
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| In: | Year: 2004 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Emotion
/ Religion
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| Further subjects: | B
Emotions ; Religious aspects
B Collection of essays B Godsdiensten B Emotions Religious aspects B Emoties B Electronic books B RELIGION ; Psychology of Religion |
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| Summary: | Brings together twelve essays in the field of emotion studies. This book examines attitudes toward and expressions of emotion in a range of religious traditions and periods. It provides insights to students of comparative religion, anthropology and psychology Provoked religious weeping in early modern Spain /William A. Christian Jr. --Hierarchy and emotion: love, joy, and sorrow in a cult of Black saints in Gujarat, India /Helene Basu --Filial emotions and filial values: changing patterns in the discourse of filiality in late Chosŏn Korea /JaHyun Kim Haboush --The philosophical foundations of sacred rhetoric /Debora K. Shuger --Rites of terror: emotion, metaphor, and memory in Melanesian initiation cults /Harvey Whitehouse --The sacred mind: Newar cultural representations of mental life and the production of moral consciousness /Steven M. Parish --The function of ritual weeping revisited: affective expression and moral discourse /Gary L. Ebersole --Krishna's consuming passions: food as metaphor and metonym for emotion at Mount Govardhan /Paul M. Toomey --Emotion in Bengali religious thought: substance and metaphor /June McDaniel --Weeping, death, and spiritual ascent in sixteenth-century Jewish mysticism /Elliot R. Wolfson --Gertrude's furor: reading anger in an early medieval saint's Life /Catharine Peyroux --Emotions and ancestors: understanding experiences of Lohorung Rai in Nepal /Charlotte E. Hardman. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 0195166248 |