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Religion and emotion : approaches and interpretations /

Brings together twelve essays in the field of emotion studies. This book examines attitudes toward and expressions of emotion in a range of religious traditions and periods. It provides insights to students of comparative religion, anthropology and psychology.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Corrigan, John, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Provoked religious weeping in early modern Spain / William A. Christian Jr.
  • Hierarchy and emotion: love, joy, and sorrow in a cult of Black saints in Gujarat, India / Helene Basu
  • Filial emotions and filial values: changing patterns in the discourse of filiality in late Chosŏn Korea / JaHyun Kim Haboush
  • The philosophical foundations of sacred rhetoric / Debora K. Shuger
  • Rites of terror: emotion, metaphor, and memory in Melanesian initiation cults / Harvey Whitehouse
  • The sacred mind: Newar cultural representations of mental life and the production of moral consciousness / Steven M. Parish
  • The function of ritual weeping revisited: affective expression and moral discourse / Gary L. Ebersole
  • Krishna's consuming passions: food as metaphor and metonym for emotion at Mount Govardhan / Paul M. Toomey
  • Emotion in Bengali religious thought: substance and metaphor / June McDaniel
  • Weeping, death, and spiritual ascent in sixteenth-century Jewish mysticism / Elliot R. Wolfson
  • Gertrude's furor: reading anger in an early medieval saint's Life / Catharine Peyroux
  • Emotions and ancestors: understanding experiences of Lohorung Rai in Nepal / Charlotte E. Hardman.