Joy of Religion

Joy of Religion

Exploring the Nature of Pleasure in Spiritual Life

Glucklich, Ariel

Cambridge University Press

01/2020

262

Dura

Inglês

9781108486422

15 a 20 dias

490

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Introduction: religion, pleasure and evolution; 1. The variety and mystery of religious pleasure; 2. The nature and cultivation of complex pleasure; 3. The discovery of mastery pleasure; 4. Philo's mastery, Plotinus' play and the mystic's joy; 5. Pleasure, play and magical thinking; 6. Church-sect theory and pleasure; 7. Narratives and rituals of pleasure; 8. A scholar's Shabbat in central Virginia; Conclusion.