Religious Emotions: Some Philosophical Explorations
Walter Van Herck · Willem Lemmens
May 2009 · Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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In recent decades contemporary Anglo-American philosophy has seen a boom in publications on the subject of ‘the emotions’. Most publications focus on the cognitive value of emotions and on their moral significance. The role which emotions play in religion, however, has sofar received little attention. In this volume a number of scholars present their research on ‘religious emotions’. Is there a category of ‘religious emotions’? What is so distinctive about them? Was there really a Christian-inspired repression of the emotions? Or did Christianity also made use of the human emotional potential? How is the relation between religion and emotions conditioned by the process of secularisation? How and why did a shift from the concept of ‘passion’ to that of ‘emotion’ occur from the eighteenth century on?
This collection includes systematical treatments as well as historical approaches of these issues. The last part gives some paradigmatical cases of religious emotions, like emptiness and oceanic feeling. In the study of what constitutes a human being neither religion nor emotion can be neglected. The reader is invited to reflect on their interaction.
About the author
Willem Lemmens (°1963) is professor of Modern Philosophy and Ethics at the University of Antwerp. He received in 1997 his PhD at the Catholic University of Louvain with a dissertation on the moral philosophy of David Hume. His main research interests are : Hume and Early Modern Philosophy, contemporary moral psychology and theory of the emotions, and bio-ethics. He is member of the National Advisory Council for Bioethics, Belgium and member of the editorial board of the Tijdschrift voor filosofie.
Walter Van Herck (°1962) received his PhD in 1996 at the Institute of Philosophy of the Catholic University of Leuven with a dissertation on Metaphors, relativism and religious belief. He is associate professor of philosophy of religion at the Univerity of Antwerp, Belgium.
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