The Joy of Religion: Exploring the Nature of Pleasure in Spiritual Life

ISBN-13: 9781108486422 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 262 str.

Ariel Glucklich

Opis

Using a psychological and historical approach, the book describes the ways that religions deepen and prolong feelings of wellbeing.

Spis treści

Introduction: religion, pleasure and evolution; 1. The variety and mystery of religious pleasure; 2. The nature and cultivation of complex pleasure; 3. The discovery of mastery pleasure; 4. Philo's mastery, Plotinus' play and the mystic's joy; 5. Pleasure, play and magical thinking; 6. Church-sect theory and pleasure; 7. Narratives and rituals of pleasure; 8. A scholar's Shabbat in central Virginia; Conclusion.