Emotion and Religion

JOHN CORRIGAN is Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies at Arizona State University. He has served as regular or visiting faculty at the University of Virginia, Harvard, Oxford, The University of London, University College (Dublin) and the University of Wittenberg-Halle. He is the author or coauthor of eight books on academic subjects and has written three screenplays produced for cable television. He is coeditor of the online Journal of Southern Religion, codirector of The American Religious Experience web site, and North American religions editor of The Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative, based at the University of California, Berkeley.ERIC CRUMP is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvannia. He is currently doing research on affectivity and faith in relation to a theological aesthetics as the intersection between pneumatology and theological anthropology.JOHN KLOOS is Professor of Religious Studies at Benedictine College. He is the author of studies of popular religion, religious initiation, and public piety, and A Sense of Deity (1991), an interpretation of the social psychology of American revolutionary Dr. Benjamin Rush, M.D. Currently at work on the themes of rebirth and renewal in person and community, he is writing on the poetry of Seamus Heaney, and on stories of self-making in popular culture.

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