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Religions manage human emotions by coupling them with core cultural values, and particular religious traditions favour a distinctive pattern or syndrome of emotions and values. Douglas J. Davies uses insights from anthropology-sociology, cognitive science, and psychology, to explore the dynamics of emotional life that forge our human identity.

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Davies offers a rich, challenging, interdisiplinary analysis of the complex interface of emotion and religious identity. * CHOICE *

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Introduction ; 1. Dynamics, feelings, and meanings ; 2. Ritual, values, and emotions ; 3. Identity depletion ; 4. Grief, intensive living, and charisma ; 5. Gender, identity, and purity ; 6. Love, mercy, humility, and betrayal ; 7. Merit, grace, and pardon ; 8. Moral-somatics, hope, despair, and suffering ; 9. Revelation, conversion, and spirit power ; 10. Sacred place, worship, and music ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

Emotion Identity And Religion Hope Reciprocity and Otherness

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      Publisher Oxford University Press
      Published 3 October 2011
      ISBN-13 9780199551538
      978-0199551538
      ISBN-10 0199551537
      Also in:
      Sociology Christianity Comparative religion

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Religions manage human emotions by coupling them with core cultural values, and particular religious traditions favour a distinctive pattern or syndrome of emotions and values. Douglas J. Davies uses insights from anthropology-sociology, cognitive science, and psychology, to explore the dynamics of emotional life that forge our human identity.

      Trade Review
      Davies offers a rich, challenging, interdisiplinary analysis of the complex interface of emotion and religious identity. * CHOICE *

      Table of Contents
      Introduction ; 1. Dynamics, feelings, and meanings ; 2. Ritual, values, and emotions ; 3. Identity depletion ; 4. Grief, intensive living, and charisma ; 5. Gender, identity, and purity ; 6. Love, mercy, humility, and betrayal ; 7. Merit, grace, and pardon ; 8. Moral-somatics, hope, despair, and suffering ; 9. Revelation, conversion, and spirit power ; 10. Sacred place, worship, and music ; Conclusion ; Bibliography

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