The Joy of Religion: Exploring the Nature of Pleasure in Spiritual Life

by Ariel Glucklich

Book Overview

All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condemn sensory pleasures and the desire for objects of pleasure. In this book, Ariel Glucklich resolves this apparent contradiction by showing how religious practices that instill self-control and discipline transform one type of pleasure into the pleasures of mastery and play. Using historical data and psychological...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110846016X
• ISBN13: 9781108460163
• Release Date: February 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.8"