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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «POLITOLOGIYA. RELIGIOVEDENIE»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «POLITICAL SCIENCE AND RELIGION STUDIES»
ISSN 2073-3380 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Political Science and Religion Studies». 2023. Vol 46

Emotions and Religion: Perspectives of the Theoretical Study

Author(s)
A. A. Zubkovskaya
Abstract
The article deals with approaches to the theoretical study of emotions associated with religious experience. The purpose of the article is to analyze the prospects for the theoretical study of “religious emotions” in the “emotional turn” of contemporary humanities and social sciences. To determine the general frame of emotional-religious discourse, the phenomenological and anthropological research perspectives in the considered disciplinary field are investigated, as well as the confrontation of the universalist and constructivist approaches to the emotional nature of human in contemporary studies of emotions. Religious-emotional discourse is concretized by the example of explaining fear and using it within the framework of theories of the origin of religion. Religious fear is considered in the context of the phenomenological definition of religious feeling as the inexpressible “feeling of creature”, “numinous feeling”, “sublime feeling”. In conclusion, the author focuses on the dichotomy of “internal” and “external” for understanding religious experience as a subjective religious experience and its external expression through ritual, bodily and other practices, as well as on the use of modern evolutionary concepts to relieve tension between the universalist and constructivist views on the origin and development of human emotions.
About the Authors
Zubkovskaya Anastasia Alexandrovna, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Researcher Scientist, Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences RAS, 51/21, Nakhimovsky ave., Moscow, 117418, Russian Federation, e-mail: zubkovskaya@inion.ru
For citation
Zubkovskaya A.A. Emotions and Religion: Perspectives of the Theoretical Study. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Political Science and Religion Studies, 2023, vol. 46, pp. 125-133. https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2023.46.125 (in Russian)
Keywords
religion, emotion, fear, evolutionism, phenomenology of religion, psychology of religion, contemporary science
UDC
215
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2073-3380.2023.46.125
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