The study of religion and emotion has emerged as an important aspect of the current renaissance in the study of emotion taking place across the arts and sciences. Emotion and Religion: A Critical Assessment and Annotated Bibliography gathers over 1,200 entries from scholarly literature in the fields of history, psychology, sociology, anthropology, theology, and philosophy. This unique bibliography demonstrates the coherence of religion and emotion studies as an area of research while noting the breadth of that area and the ways in which researchers have employed various methods and disciplinary approaches. An extensive introductory essay identifies the leading themes in the scholarship and demonstrates both the complexity of the field and the ways in which work from several disciplinary perspectives has overlapped. Featuring outstanding annotations and a detailed overview of the field, this book demonstrates the breadth and vitality of scholarly research in this area. The bibliography is organized into three distinct parts. Part I focuses on Historical Studies and includes the scholarship on various time periods, beginning with ancient times. Part II, on Social and Behavioral Sciences, includes sections on psychological studies, anthropological studies, and sociological studies. Theological and Philosophical Studies are examined in Part III. This major new reference concludes with two detailed indices on authors and topics. Emotion and Religion charts an important area of scholarship for the first time, making it a vital contribution to the scholarship in itself.

Charts for the first time the scholarship on religion and emotion, gathering 1,200 entries from scholarly literature in various fields.

About the Author
JOHN CORRIGAN is Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Arizona State University. He has served as regular or visiting faculty at the University of Virginia, Harvard, Oxford, The University of London, University College (Dublin) and the University of Wittenberg-Halle. He is the author or coauthor of eight books on academic subjects and has written three screenplays produced for cable television. He is coeditor of the online Journal of Southern Religion, codirector of The American Religious Experience web site, and North American religions editor of The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, based at the University of California, Berkeley. ERIC CRUMP is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvannia. He is currently doing research on affectivity and faith in relation to a theological aesthetics as the intersection between pneumatology and theological anthropology. JOHN KLOOS is Professor of Religious Studies at Benedictine College. He is the author of studies of popular religion, religious initiation, and public piety, and A Sense of Deity (1991), an interpretation of the social psychology of American revolutionary Dr. Benjamin Rush, M.D. Currently at work on the themes of rebirth and renewal in person and community, he is writing on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, and on stories of self-making in popular culture.


Book Information
ISBN 9780313306006
Author John Corrigan
Format Hardback
Page Count 256
Imprint Greenwood Press
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Weight(grams) 482g