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Douglas J. Davies

Emotion, Identity, and Religion

Hope, Reciprocity, and Otherness

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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 t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-19-955153-8
  • EAN: 9780199551538
  • Produktnummer: 22670960
  • Verlag: OUP Oxford
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 334 S.
  • Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.8 cm 509 g
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 509

Über den Autor


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 linksbetween anthropology and theology, with a special interest in how the human desire for meaning becomes a sense of salvation.

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