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A Sociology of Religious Emotion
Contributor(s): Riis, Ole (Author), Woodhead, Linda (Author)

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 ISBN: 0199567603     ISBN-13: 9780199567607
Publisher: OUP Oxford
OUR PRICE: $81.70  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: July 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Religion | Psychology Of Religion
Dewey: 200.19
LCCN: 2010927169
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" L (1.15 lbs) 272 pages
Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
Review Citations: Choice 04/01/2011
 
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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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