Emotion, Identity, and Religion: Hope, Reciprocity, and Otherness
Author:   Douglas J. Davies (Professor in the Study of Religion, University of Durham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199551521


Pages:   334
Publication Date:   10 March 2011
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Douglas J. Davies (Professor in the Study of Religion, University of Durham)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.40cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.654kg
ISBN:  

9780199551521


ISBN 10:   0199551529
Pages:   334
Publication Date:   10 March 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Dynamics, feelings, and meanings 2: Ritual, values, and emotions 3: Identity depletion 4: Grief, intensive living, and charisma 5: Gender, identity, and purity 6: Love, mercy, humility, and betrayal 7: Merit, grace, and pardon 8: Moral-somatics, hope, despair, and suffering 9: Revelation, conversion, and spirit power 10: Sacred place, worship, and music Conclusion Bibliography

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Using a thoroughly interdisciplinary approach-one that draws on sociology, theology, psychology, anthropology and philosophy-Davis crafts an engaging and timely analysis of the cultural importance of emotions in shaping the human quest for religious meaning and salvation. Susan Raine, Religion


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Douglas J. Davies is Professor in the Study of Religion at Durham and Director of the Centre for Death and Life Studies. He trained in both anthropology and theology and has taught the study of religion for many years both at Nottingham and Durham Universities. His specialist interests and many publications include work on death, funerary ritual and afterlife beliefs, as well as the Mormon and Anglican religious traditions and theoretical questions of the links between anthropology and theology, with a special interest in how the human desire for meaning becomes a sense of salvation.

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