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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Main Author:	Riis, Ole
Other Authors:	Woodhead, Linda
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2010.
Subjects:	Emotions > Religious aspects. Religion and sociology. Religion. Sociologie religieuse. religion (discipline) sociology of religion. Comparative Religion. RELIGION. Psychology of Religion. Theology. Cultural. Anthropology. SOCIAL SCIENCE. Emotions > Religious aspects Religion Religion and sociology Electronic books.
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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 ofdevotion, and communities and sacred symbols. It presents parallels and contrasts between religious emotions in Europe.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (277 pages)
ISBN:	9780191576584 0191576581 9780191614217 0191614211