Examining the Structure and Role of Emotion: Contributions of Neurobiology to the Study of Embodied Religious Experience

Abstract. Certain properties of the body and emotions facilitate the transmission of religious knowledge and the development of religious states through particular qualities of perception and memory. The body, which is the ground of religious experience, can be understood as transformative: the char...

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Main Author: Norris, Rebecca Sachs (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2005
In: Zygon
Year: 2005, Volume: 40, Issue: 1, Pages: 181-200
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B Memory
B Transmission
B Ritual
B Embodiment
B Posture
B nonverbal
B Religious Experience
B Neuroscience
B Experience
B Transcendence
B Gesture
B Emotion
B Identity
B Body
B Culture
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