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Emotion, Identity, and Religion - Hope, Reciprocity, and Otherness (Hardcover, New)
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Emotion, Identity, and Religion - Hope, Reciprocity, and Otherness (Hardcover, New)
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Deep emotions pervade our human lives and ongoing moods echo them.
Religious traditions often shape these and give devotees a sense of
identity in a hopeful and meaningful life despite the conflicts,
confusion, pain and grief of existence. Driven by anthropological
and sociological perspectives, Douglas J. Davies describes and
analyses these dynamic tensions and life opportunities as they are
worked out in ritual, music, theology, and the allure of sacred
places. Davies brings some newer concepts to these familiar ideas,
such as 'the humility response' and 'moral-somatic' processes,
revealing how our sense of ourselves responds to how we are treated
by others as when injustice makes us 'feel sick' or religious ideas
of grace prompt joyfulness. This sense of embodied identity is
shown to be influenced not only by 'reciprocity' in the many forms
of exchange, gifts, merit, and actions of others, but also by a
certain sense of 'otherness, whether in God, ancestors,
supernatural forces or even a certain awareness of ourselves.
Drawing from psychological studies of how our thinking processes
engage with the worlds around us we see how difficult it is to
separate out 'religious' activity from many other aspects of human
response to our environment. Throughout these pages many examples
are taken from the well-known religions of the world as well as
from local and secular traditions.
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