Emotions and monotheism / John Corrigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corrigan, John, 1952- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in religion and monotheism

Cambridge Elements. Elements in Religion and Monotheism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions--Religious aspects.

Emotions.

Monotheism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (67 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, England : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

The emotional turn in scholarship has changed the way in which historians of religion think about monotheistic traditions. New histories of religion have adapted and incorporated the totalizing sensibilities of twentieth century annalistes, the granular view of social historians, groundbreaking philosophical investigations, and the spirit of interdisciplinary collaboration between historical analysis, anthropology, and psychology. Religion as a principal bearer of culture has shaped emotional life profoundly, just as human emotion has constituted religious life. Taking a qualified constructivist approach to emotion enables understanding of the dynamism, fluidity, and ambiguity in emotional experience, alongside continuities, and facilitates analysis of how that feeling has animated religious life in monotheistic traditions. It equally sharpens insight into how monotheistic religion itself has made emotion. Affect, emotion, and mixed emotions are three categories of feelings evidenced in monotheistic religions. Each is illustrated with respect to the similarities and differences among Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Emotions and Monotheism

Contents

1 Monotheism and Emotions

2 Body and Affect

2.1 Judaism: Trembling and Laughing

2.2 Christianity: Pain and Emptiness

2.3 Islam: Awe and Pleasure

3 Emotion, Ritual, and Identity

3.1 Love in Christianity

3.2 Love in Judaism

3.3 Love in Islam

3.4 Anger in Islam

3.5 Anger in Christianity

3.6 Anger in Judaism

4 Mixed Emotions

4.1 Weeping in Christianity

4.2 Weeping in Islam

4.3 Weeping in Judaism

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 18 Apr 2024).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781108987738

1108987737

9781108988643

1108988644

9781108980807

1108980805