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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Bibliographic Details
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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Table of Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Emotion: A Relational View; 2. Religious Emotion; 3. Dynamics of Religious Emotion I: Connections of Self, Society, and Symbols; 4. Dynamics of Religious Emotion Ii: Disconnections of Self, Society, and Symbols; 5. The Power of Religious Emotion; 6. Religious Emotion in Late Modern Society, and Culture; Conclusion; Appendix: Studying Religious Emotion: Method and Practice; References; Index.