Table of Contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: How Do We Study Religion and Emotion / John Corrigan  1
1. Approaching the Morality of Emotion: Specifying the Object of Inquiry / Diana Fritz Cates  23
2. Metaphysics and Emotional Experience: Some Themes Drawn from John of the Cross / Mark Wynn  53
3. Beautiful Facts: Science, Secularism, and Affect / Donovan O. Schaefer  69
4. Affect Theory as a Tool for Examining Religious Documentaries / M. Gail Hamner  93
5. Dark Devotion: Religious Emotion in Shakta and Shi'ah Traditions / June McDaniel  117
6. Sound and Sentiment in Judaism: Toward the Production, Perception, and Representation of Emotion in Jewish Ritual Music / Sarah M. Ross  142
7. Beyond "Hope": Religion and Environmental Sentiment in the USA and Indonesia / Anna M. Gade  175
8. Bodily Encounters: Affect, Religion, and Ethnography / Jessica Johnson  200
9. Emotion and Imagination in the Ritual Entanglement of Religion, Sport, and Nationalism / David Morgan  222
10. At the Limits of Feeling: Religion, Psychoanalysis, and the Affective Subject / Abby Kluchin  242
Bibliography  261
Contributors  279
Index  281

About the Author

John Corrigan is Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University and the author and editor of numerous books, most recently, Emptiness: Feeling Christian in America.

Reviews

"Feeling Religion is an excellent response to a need over the past centuries for a thorough and scholarly investigation of the relationship between emotion and religion. . . . This superbly edited work has done more than provide incisive scholarly knowledge about emotion in religion."
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