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A Sociology of Religious Emotion
Ole Riis and Linda Woodhead
286 pages
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Plate section with 12 black and white halftones
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216x138mm
978-0-19-956760-7
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Hardback
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24 June 2010
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- An accessible yet nuanced survey by two leading researchers in Sociology of Religion
- Demonstrates that emotion is central in religious life, and offers a framework for making sense of religious emotion
- Carefully discusses systematic methodology employed to suggest new approach to study of religious emotion
- Uses vivid illustrative examples from around the globe, taken from historical and contemporary sources
- Photographic plates visually convey the variety of contexts and cultures discussed
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.Readership: Scholars and students of the sociology of religion, of comparative religion, of theology, of anthropology, of the psychology of emotion
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Ole Riis, Professor of Sociology, University of Agder, Norway, and Linda Woodhead, Professor of Sociology of Religion, Lancaster University
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"A Sociology of Religious Emotion is exactly the kind of specialist academic book that is usually overlooked by the celebrity combatants in the secular commentariat. If the book's arguments and its proposals for research are heeded, it might ground the wrangles about the proper place of religion." - Bernice Martin, Times Literary Supplement "I came away from this book better informed, and richer in understanding. My respect for these authors is considerable, because there is a real art to making academic research accessible; and this book did a good job of interesting me, a lay person, in a discipline I didn't know ... I felt wiser when I had finished A Sociology of Religious Emotion." - Gwen Adshead, Church
Times
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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
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