Religion and Emotion Approaches and Interpretations [Paperback]

Over the past decade the academic study of emotion has developed very substantially across a number of disciplines, including religious studies. This anthology is the first collection of recent papers addressing the topic of religion and emotion. The selected pieces-each a foundational essay in this rapidly evolving field-examine attitudes toward and expressions of emotion in a wide range of religious traditions and periods. Among the themes considered are the relation of emotion to moral or religious norms, the role of emotion in faith, religious emotion as a performance of feeling in ritual contexts, and the relation of emotion to religious language. Specific topics examined range from filial emotions and filial values in medieval Korean Buddhism to weeping and spirituality in 16th-century Jewish mysticism. This volume is designed to provide an introduction to recent work in the field and should appeal to both scholars and students of comparative religion, anthropology, and psychology.

John Corriganis Edwin Scott Gaustad Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University. Among his many books areBusiness of the Heart: Religion and Emotion in the Nineteenth Century(2001) andThe Prism of Piety: Catholick Congregational Clergy at the Beginning of theEnlightenment(OUP, 1991).