{"product_id":"religious-affects-9780822359821","title":"Religious Affects","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMaking a case for the use of affect theory in religious studies, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and cognition, contending instead that religion is primarily driven by affect and that non-human animals have the capacity to practice religion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReligious Affects\u003c\/i\u003e represents a challenge to decenter our anthropocentric presuppositions more broadly, and, by appealing to human animality, provides a provocative angle for imagining affect over and above the all-toohuman parameters that usually characterize religious studies.... [M]any scholars will find Schaefer’s animal religion and his strategies for affective readings of religious phenomena both theoretically exciting and critically useful.\"  -- Abigail Kluchin * Journal of the American Academy of Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"Schaefer’s book is fascinating, mind-expanding, and entirely worth a read.\" -- Barbara J. King * Atlantic *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReligious Affects\u003c\/i\u003e is an original and challenging argument for the discipline, especially to social-constructionist approaches, as it aims to radically reconfigure how we think about religion as a phenomenon grounded in feelings and emotions (affects) that humans share with the animal world.\" -- Matt Sheedy * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"For all its breadth in \u003ci\u003eReligious Affects\u003c\/i\u003e Schaefer develops a well-crafted argument and clarion call:the study of religion must include,at its very core, the study of affect.... Schaefer's project is timely in an urgent sense.\" -- Jonathan Russell * Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReligious Affects\u003c\/i\u003e offers a new way to use affect theory to understand religion that better accounts for its connections with politics, globalization, and power.\" -- Staci Poston Conner * Affectsphere *\u003cbr\u003e\"Schaefer . . . is blazing a trail in religious studies.\" -- Jonathan Benthall * TLS *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReligious Affects\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book, rendering helpful therapy for some of the myopic methodological tendencies that can afflict the field of religious studies.\" -- Jason N. Blum * Syndicate *\u003cbr\u003e\"[Schaefer's] approach to reading affect theory through the lens of animality will enrich critical engagement with the concept of religion as a theoretical tool and as a word of power in the world.\" -- Pamela Klassen * Syndicate *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eReligious Affects\u003c\/i\u003e comfortably belongs on the bookshelves of those who work with affect theory or in critical animal studies. For religious scholars, or anyone interested in affect theory or critical animal studies, it serves as a concise and valuable introduction to these theories, providing explanations, histories, applications, and paving ways for future scholarship.\" -- Alexander Cox-Twardowski * Journal of Religion and Popular Culture *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Species, Religious Studies, and the Affective Turn  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Religion, Language, and Affect  19\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2. Intransigence: Power, Embodiment, and the Two Types of Affect Theory  36\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3. Teaching Religion, Emotion, and Global Cinema  60\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4. Compulsion: Affect, Desire, and Materiality  92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Savages: Ideology, Primatology, and Islamophobia  120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6. Accident: Animalism, Evolution, and Affective Economies  147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7. A Theory of the Waterfall Dance: On Accident, Language, and Animal Religion  178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Under the Rose  206\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  219\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  281","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406090936663,"sku":"9780822359821","price":75.65,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822359821.jpg?v=1730494493","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/religious-affects-9780822359821","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}