Schaefer Religious Affects

Animality, Evolution, and Power
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7490-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

Making a case for the use of affect theory in religious studies, Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and cognition, contending instead that religion is primarily driven by affect and that non-human animals have the capacity to practice religion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schaefer, Donovan O.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction. Species, Religious Studies, and the Affective Turn 1

1. Religion, Language, and Affect 19

2. Intransigence: Power, Embodiment, and the Two Types of Affect Theory 36

3. Teaching Religion, Emotion, and Global Cinema 60

4. Compulsion: Affect, Desire, and Materiality 92

5. Savages: Ideology, Primatology, and Islamophobia 120

6. Accident: Animalism, Evolution, and Affective Economies 147

7. A Theory of the Waterfall Dance: On Accident, Language, and Animal Religion 178

Conclusion. Under the Rose 206

Notes 219

Bibliography 261

Index 281

Über Autor(innen)

Donovan O. Schaefer is Departmental Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford.