RT Article
T1 Why Religious Literacy Requires Emotional Literacy
JF The review of faith & international affairs
VO 18
IS 4
SP 99
OP 104
A1 Wellman, James K. 1958-
A1 Choksi, Mitu
LA English
PB Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
YR 2020
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1741924502
AB The experience of faith in its affective and aesthetic brilliance and profundity captures and moves people to care and serve. Religious literacy must go beyond the knowledge collected in books and must discover why people love and treasure their faith. It not only involves beliefs and acts of piety, but also how one is transformed in one's heart, mind, and body. We use the embodied choice theory of religion to explain that humans combine emotion and choice in their religious lives. We combine this with Randall Collins' work on interaction ritual chains to describe how emotional interactive ritual chains tie humans to each other and to God.
K1 Aesthetic
K1 Emotion
K1 Holy
K1 religious affectivity
K1 visceral
DO 10.1080/15570274.2020.1835034