A Sociology of Religious Emotion

by Ole Riis and Linda Woodhead

Book Overview

This timely book aims to change the way we think about religion by putting emotion back onto the agenda. It challenges a tendency to over-emphasise rational aspects of religion, and rehabilitates its embodied, visceral and affective dimensions. Against the view that religious emotion is a purely private matter, it offers a new framework which shows how religious emotions arise in the varied interactions between human agents and religious communities,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199567603
• ISBN13: 9780199567607
• Release Date: July 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"