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Book SynopsisComing from a number of fields ranging from anthropology, media studies, and theology to musicology and philosophy, the contributors to
Feeling Religion analyze the historical and contemporary entwinement of emotion, religion, spirituality, and secularism, thereby refiguring the field of religious studies and opening up new avenues of research.
Trade Review"
Feeling Religion is an excellent response to a need over the past centuries for a thorough and scholarly investigation of the relationship between emotion and religion. . . . This superbly edited work has done more than provide incisive scholarly knowledge about emotion in religion." -- John-Okoria Ibhakewanlan * Theological Studies *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction: How Do We Study Religion and Emotion / John Corrigan 1
1. Approaching the Morality of Emotion: Specifying the Object of Inquiry / Diana Fritz Cates 23
2. Metaphysics and Emotional Experience: Some Themes Drawn from John of the Cross / Mark Wynn 53
3. Beautiful Facts: Science, Secularism, and Affect / Donovan O. Schaefer 69
4. Affect Theory as a Tool for Examining Religious Documentaries / M. Gail Hamner 93
5. Dark Devotion: Religious Emotion in Shakta and Shi'ah Traditions / June McDaniel 117
6. Sound and Sentiment in Judaism: Toward the Production, Perception, and Representation of Emotion in Jewish Ritual Music / Sarah M. Ross 142
7. Beyond "Hope": Religion and Environmental Sentiment in the USA and Indonesia / Anna M. Gade 175
8. Bodily Encounters: Affect, Religion, and Ethnography / Jessica Johnson 200
9. Emotion and Imagination in the Ritual Entanglement of Religion, Sport, and Nationalism / David Morgan 222
10. At the Limits of Feeling: Religion, Psychoanalysis, and the Affective Subject / Abby Kluchin 242
Bibliography 261
Contributors 279
Index 281
