Cover of Sociology of Religious Emotion

Book 2012

Sociology of Religious Emotion

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Published
2012
  • Emotions
  • Religion and sociology

Challenging a contemporary tendency to over-emphasise the rational aspects of religion, Riis and Woodhead present a methodology which shows how religious emotions arise in the varied interactions between human agents and religious communities, human agents and objects of devotion, and communities and sacred symbols.