A Sociology of Religious Emotion

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-965577-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 142 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 388 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of the sociology of religion, of comparative religion, of theology, of anthropology, of the psychology of emotion

Autoren/Hrsg.

Riis, Ole

Woodhead, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Religionssoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionssoziologie und -psychologie, Spiritualität, Mystik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Sonstige Religionen: Spiritualität, Mystik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- 1: Emotion - a relational view

- 2: Delineating 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: Suggestions for method and practice

Über Autor(innen)

Ole Riis, Professor of Sociology, University of Agder, Norway, and Linda Woodhead, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University