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Erika Wilson's text is an important contribution to an understanding of the psychology of religion. It offers remarkable insights into the role and valuation of feeling in a number of religions and spiritual movements. . . . This work is highly recommended for both students and professionals in psychology and religious studies as well as for the general reader. -- Robert S. Ellwood, (University of Southern California) . . . Erika Wilson takes us on an original trip through spiritual experiences [and] the religions' respective valuation of particular positive emotions . . . [and] negative emotions. Perhaps newest of all in a book on religion is her inclusion of the discoveries of cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists on religious experiential phenomena. -- John P. Crossley, Ph.D., emeritus professor of religion, University of Southern California In [this book], Erika Wilson displays her commanding grasp of, on the one hand, the latest developments in psychology of religion and neuropsychology, and, on the other, of the emotions people experience in . . . spiritual practices across cultures. . . . It is a magnum opus and a wonderfully helpful gift to the study of religion and human experience. -- Franz Metcalf, Ph.D., author and lecturer of religious studies, California State University, Los Angeles

Erika Wilson,s text is an important contribution to an understanding of the psychology of religion. It offers remarkable insights into the role and valuation of feeling in a number of religions and spiritual movements... This work is highly recommended for both students and professionals in psychology and religious studies as well as for the general reader. -- Robert S. Ellwood, (University of Southern California) ... Erika Wilson takes us on an original trip through spiritual experiences [and] the religions, respective valuation of particular positive emotions ... [and] negative emotions. Perhaps newest of all in a book on religion is her inclusion of the discoveries of cognitive psychologists and neuroscientists on religious experiential phenomena. -- John P. Crossley, Ph.D., emeritus professor of religion, University of Southern California In [this book], Erika Wilson displays her commanding grasp of, on the one hand, the latest developments in psychology of religion and neuropsychology, and, on the other, of the emotions people experience in ... spiritual practices across cultures... It is a magnum opus and a wonderfully helpful gift to the study of religion and human experience. -- Franz Metcalf, Ph.D., author and lecturer of religious studies, California State University, Los Angeles

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Erika Wilson was born in Germany and emigrated to the US. She received her Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1971 and her second Ph.D. in comparative religious studies from the University of Southern California in 1979. She has taught in the California State University System since 1963, and, for the past nine years, at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Among other publications, she is the author of Religion in All Dimensions, 3d ed. (1998) and Healing and Well-Being in the Religions of the World (1996).

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