The contributors to Feeling Religion analyze the historical and contemporary entwinement of emotion, religion, spirituality, and secularism. They show how attending to these entanglements transforms understandings of metaphysics, ethics, ritual, religious music and poetry, the environment, popular culture, and the secular while producing new angles from which to approach familiar subjects. At the same time, their engagement with race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nation in studies of topics as divergent as documentary film, Islamic environmentalism, and Jewish music demonstrates the ways in which interrogating emotion's role in religious practice and interpretation is refiguring the field of religious studies and beyond.
Contributors. Diana Fritz Cates, John Corrigan, Anna M. Gade, M. Gail Hamner, Abby Kluchin, Jessica Johnson, June McDaniel, David Morgan, Sarah M. Ross, Donovan Schaefer, Mark Wynn
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: How Do We Study Religion and Emotion?
- 1. Approaching the Morality of Emotion: Specifying the Object of Inquiry
- 2. Metaphysics and Emotional Experience: Some Themes Drawn from John of the Cross
- 3. Beautiful Facts: Science, Secularism, and Affect
- 4. Affect Theory as a Tool for Examining Religion Documentaries
- 5. Dark Devotion: Religious Emotion in Shakta and Shi’ah Traditions
- 6. Sound and Sentiment in Judaism: Toward the Production, Perception, and Representation of Emotion in Jewish Ritual Music
- 7. Beyond “Hope”: Religion and Environmental Sentiment in the USA and Indonesia
- 8. Bodily Encounters: Affect, Religion, and Ethnography
- 9. Emotion and Imagination in the Ritual Entanglement of Religion, Sport, and Nationalism
- 10. At the Limits of Feeling: Religion, Psychoanalysis, and the Affective Subject
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- V
- W
- Y
- Z
Text
Audio
Adobe DRM
Login to your account