The contributors to Feeling Religion analyze the historical and contemporary entwinement of emotion, religion, spirituality, and secularism. They show how attending to these entanglements transforms understandings of metaphysics, ethics, ritual, religious music and poetry, the environment, popular culture, and the secular while producing new angles from which to approach familiar subjects. At the same time, their engagement with race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nation in studies of topics as divergent as documentary film, Islamic environmentalism, and Jewish music demonstrates the ways in which interrogating emotion's role in religious practice and interpretation is refiguring the field of religious studies and beyond.
Contributors. Diana Fritz Cates, John Corrigan, Anna M. Gade, M. Gail Hamner, Abby Kluchin, Jessica Johnson, June McDaniel, David Morgan, Sarah M. Ross, Donovan Schaefer, Mark Wynn

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: How Do We Study Religion and Emotion / John Corrigan  1
1. Approaching the Morality of Emotion: Specifying the Object of Inquiry / Diana Fritz Cates  23
2. Metaphysics and Emotional Experience: Some Themes Drawn from John of the Cross / Mark Wynn  53
3. Beautiful Facts: Science, Secularism, and Affect / Donovan O. Schaefer  69
4. Affect Theory as a Tool for Examining Religious Documentaries / M. Gail Hamner  93
5. Dark Devotion: Religious Emotion in Shakta and Shi'ah Traditions / June McDaniel  117
6. Sound and Sentiment in Judaism: Toward the Production, Perception, and Representation of Emotion in Jewish Ritual Music / Sarah M. Ross  142
7. Beyond "Hope": Religion and Environmental Sentiment in the USA and Indonesia / Anna M. Gade  175
8. Bodily Encounters: Affect, Religion, and Ethnography / Jessica Johnson  200
9. Emotion and Imagination in the Ritual Entanglement of Religion, Sport, and Nationalism / David Morgan  222
10. At the Limits of Feeling: Religion, Psychoanalysis, and the Affective Subject / Abby Kluchin  242
Bibliography  261
Contributors  279
Index  281

John Corrigan is Lucius Moody Bristol Distinguished Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Florida State University and the author and editor of numerous books, most recently, Emptiness: Feeling Christian in America.