Emotion, identity, and religion
Subtitle: hope, reciprocity, and otherness
By: by Douglas J. Davies
Publisher: Oxford University Press; Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 325
ISBN-13: 9780199551521; 9780199551538
Subjects: Religious Psychology; Religious aspects; Emotions; Identity (Psychology)
Description: Religious traditions often shape our deep emotions and ongoing moods. Driven by anthropological and sociological perspectives, Douglas J. Davies describes and analyses these dynamic tensions and life opportunities as they are worked out in ritual, music, theology and the allure of sacred places.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Dynamics, feeling, and meanings; title: Ritual, values, and emotions; title: Identity depletion; title: Grief, intensive living, and charisma; title: Gender, identity, and purity; title: Love, mercy, humility, and betrayal; title: Merit, grace, and pardon; title: Moral-somatics, hope, despair, and suffering; title: Revelation, conversion, and spirit power; title: Sacred place, worship, and music; title: Sensory identity : wisdom, wonder, and worship.