| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 359 pages) |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Emotions -- Religious aspects.
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RELIGION -- Psychology of Religion.
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Emotions -- Religious aspects
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Godsdiensten.
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Emoties.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Corrigan, John, 1952-
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| ISBN |
9781429438629 |
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1429438622 |
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9780195166248 |
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0195166248 |
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9780195166255 |
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0195166256 |
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