Schaefer Donovan O. Schaefer

Religious Affects (eBook, PDF)

Animality, Evolution, and Power

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Produktbeschreibung

In Religious Affects Donovan O. Schaefer challenges the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and belief, proposing instead that it is primarily driven by affects. Drawing on affect theory, evolutionary biology, and poststructuralist theory, Schaefer builds on the recent materialist shift in religious studies to relocate religious practices in the affective realm-an insight that helps us better understand how religion is lived in conjunction with systems of power. To demonstrate religion's animality and how it works affectively, Schaefer turns to a series of case studies, including the documentary Jesus Camp and contemporary American Islamophobia. Placing affect theory in conversation with post-Darwinian evolutionary theory, Schaefer explores the extent to which nonhuman animals have the capacity to practice religion, linking human forms of religion and power through a new analysis of the chimpanzee waterfall dance as observed by Jane Goodall. In this compelling case for the use of affect theory in religious studies, Schaefer provides a new model for mapping relations between religion, politics, species, globalization, secularism, race, and ethics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. November 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374909
• Artikelnr.: 54664650

Autorenporträt

Donovan O. Schaefer is Departmental Lecturer in Science and Religion at the University of Oxford.  

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix Introduction. Species
Religious Studies
and the Affective Turn  1 1. Religion
Language
and Affect  19 2. Intransigence: Power
Embodiment
and the Two Types of Affect Theory  36 3. Teaching Religion
Emotion
and Global Cinema  60 4. Compulsion: Affect
Desire
and Materiality  92 5. Savages: Ideology
Primatology
and Islamophobia  120 6. Accident: Animalism
Evolution
and Affective Economies  147 7. A Theory of the Waterfall Dance: On Accident
Language
and Animal Religion  178 Conclusion. Under the Rose  206 Notes  219 Bibliography  261 Index  281