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Religious affects : animality, evolution, and power / Donovan O. Schaefer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schaefer, Donovan O., 1981-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals--Religious aspects.
- Animals.
- Affect (Psychology)--Religious aspects.
- Affect (Psychology).
- Theological anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (305 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Making a case for the use of affect theory in religious studies, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and cognition, contending instead that religion is primarily driven by affect and that non-human animals have the capacity to practice religion.
- Contents:
- Religion, language, and affect
- Intransigence : power, embodiment, and the two types of affect theory
- Teaching religion, emotion, and global cinema
- Compulsion : affect, desire, and materiality
- Savages : ideology, primatology, and Islamophobia
- Accident: animalism, evolution, and affective economies
- A theory of the waterfall dance : on accident, language, and animal religion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374909
- 0822374900
- OCLC:
- 926709757
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