A Sociology of Religious Emotion - Softcover

Riis, Ole (Professor Of Sociology, University Of Agder, Norway); Woodhead, Linda, MBE (Professor Of Sociology Of Religion, Lancaster University)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199655774 ISBN 13: 9780199655779

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0199655774
• ISBN 13: 9780199655779
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286
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