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Book SynopsisThe academic study of religion recently has turned to the investigation of emotion as a crucial aspect of religious life. Researchers have set out in several directions to explore that new terrain and have brought with them an assortment of instruments useful in charting it. This volume collects essays under four categories: religious traditions, religious life, emotional states, and historical and theoretical perspectives. In this book, scholars engaged in cutting edge research on religion and emotion describe the ways in which emotions have played a role in Buddhism, Christianity, Judaism, Islam, and other religions. They analyze the manner in which key components of religious life -- ritual, music, gender, sexuality and material culture -- represent and shape emotional performance. Some of the essays included here take a specific emotion, such as love or hatred, and observe the place of that emotion in an assortment of religious traditions and cultural settings. Other essays analyze
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Table of ContentsPart 1: Religious Traditions 1. Buddhism, Maria Heim 2. Islam, Anna Gade 3. Hinduism, June McDaniel 4. Japanese Religion, Gary Ebersole 5. Judaism, Joel Gereboff 6. Christianity, Andrew Tallon 7. New Religious Movements, Doug Cowan Part 2: Religious Life 8. Ritual, Pamela Klassen 9. Sexuality, Jeffrey Kripal 10. Gender, Melissa Raphael 11. Music, Frank Burch Brown 12. Material Culture, John Kieschnick Part 3: Emotional States 13. Ecstasy, Helene Basu and Angelika Malinar 14. Terror, Harvey Whitehouse 15. Hope, W. Watts Miller 16. Melancholy, Julius Rubin 17. Love, Nancy Martin and Joseph Runzo 18. Hatred, John Corrigan Part 4: Historical and Theoretical Perspectives 19. Augustine, James Wetzel 20. Medieval Mysticism, Niklaus Largier 21. Kierkegaard, David Kangas 22. Jonathan Edwards, Michael McClymond 23. William James, Jeremy Carrette 24. Durkheim, W.S.F. Pickering 25. Schleirmacher and Otto, Jacqueline Mariña 26. Constructivism and its Critics, John Kloos 27. Emotions Research and Religious Experience, Robert Roberts
