A sociology of religious emotion
By: Ole Riis and Linda Woodhead
Contributors: Woodhead, Linda
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780199567607
Description: Challenging a contemporary tendency to over-emphasise the rational aspects of religion, Riis and Woodhead present a methodology 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-259) and index.