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Religious Affects - Animality, Evolution, and Power (Hardcover)
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Religious Affects - Animality, Evolution, and Power (Hardcover)
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In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that
religion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing
instead that it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing on affect
theory, evolutionary biology, and poststructuralist theory,
Schaefer builds on the recent materialist shift in religious
studies to relocate religious practices in the affective realm-an
insight that helps us better understand how religion is lived in
conjunction with systems of power. To demonstrate religion's
animality and how it works affectively, Schaefer turns to a series
of case studies, including the documentary Jesus Camp and
contemporary American Islamophobia. Placing affect theory in
conversation with post-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Schaefer
explores the extent to which nonhuman animals have the capacity to
practice religion, linking human forms of religion and power
through a new analysis of the chimpanzee waterfall dance as
observed by Jane Goodall. In this compelling case for the use of
affect theory in religious studies, Schaefer provides a new model
for mapping relations between religion, politics, species,
globalization, secularism, race, and ethics.
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