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Kirtan: Music, Emotion, and Belonging in Finnish Holistic Spirituality
Kirtan as the Eastern practice of accompanied call-and-response singing has secured its place in Finland’s holistic spirituality. It arrived in...
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Emotion, Connection, and Motion: Deploying Positive and Negative Emotions in Conflict Resolution
Rabbi Sacks’s focus on the emotion of joy can be linked to feelings of empathy—both a connection to a past that is marked by suffering and gratitude...
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Seekers of Love: The Phenomenology of Emotion in Jewish, Christian, and Sufi Mystical Sources
Love constitutes a paradigmatic emotion that is frequently deployed by mystics in the Abrahamic traditions that offers a counterpoint to...
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Moral Psychology of Emotion in Korean Neo-Confucianism and Its Philosophical Debates on the Affective Nature of the Mind
This chapter discusses the Four-Seven Debate and the Horak Debate, the two major philosophical debates of Korean Neo-Confucianism and analyzes how...
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Pentecostal Emotive (Non)Dualism: Pneumatology, Worship, and Context
Pentecostal spirituality emphasizes experiential emotionalism, as individuals and communities holistically experience the Holy Spirit, creating a...
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The Idea of Gyeong/**g 敬 in Yi Toegye’s Korean Neo-Confucianism and Its Availability in Contemporary Ethical Debate
Gyeong 敬 (**g in Chinese) is one of the most significant notions in the Korean Neo-Confucian philosophy of emotion. First, I will examine the...
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Toward a New Dharma of Peace, Health, and Global Well-Being
Peace is generally seen as absence of conflict, like health is seen as absence of disease. However, when we review Vedic literature, peace, and...
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Fear and Devotion in Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Rasa Theory
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava thinkers adapted rasa theory to a context of devotion to the god Kṛṣṇa. In doing so, bhayānaka-rasa , the aestheticized experience of...
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“The Epistemic Significance of adbhutarasa: Aestheticized Wonder as a Virtue of Inquiry”
This analysis holds that just as wisdom is good for its own sake, the effervescent perfuming of aesthetic pleasure in rasa , camatkāra , need not be...
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Resentment and Gratitude in Won Buddhism
This chapter shows how the emotion of resentment was recognized as the cause of the moral illness of the world and how the Won Buddhist ethics...
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The Jewish Value of Joy and Positive Education
This essay explores joy in the thought of Rabbi Sacks, and the role joy can play in education. This is framed through the school of Positive...
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Hanmaeum, One Heart-mind: A Korean Buddhist Philosophical Basis of Jeong (情)
Korean people share a cultural emotion called jeong (정 情), which generally means intimacy or love. The Korean word jeong literally means “emotions”...
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Silence at the Non-substantialistic Turn in Epistemology
Therese B. Dykeman in analyzing silence ontologically as substantial and non-substantial, demonstrates how it is understood in language and...
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The Politics of Space: Affect, Church Membership, and Ecclesial Identity in Contemporary Chinese Reformed Churches
There has been a growing resurgence of Reformed Christianity in contemporary China, largely focused within China’s urban centers. Based on a case...
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The Happiness that Qualifies Nonduality: Jñāna, Bhakti, and Sukha in Rāmānuja’s Vedārthasaṃgraha
The great eleventh-century figure, Rāmānuja, belonged to the Śrīvaiṣṇava community that worshiped the divine as Viṣṇu-with-Śrī, the Lord-and-Consort....
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Kāma, Preman, and Bhakti in Śrīdhara’s Commentary on Kṛṣṇa and the Gopīs in the Bhāgavata Purāṇa
Although the Bhāgavata Purāṇa presents an innovative soteriology of emotion that explicitly identifies kāma as the gopī s’ path to union with Kṛṣṇa, a...
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The Role of Uttaramandrā-Gāthā in the Aśvamedha: Ancient Evidence of Music for Psychological Stress
Music in the Uttaramandrā-gāna or Gāthā-gāna is an integral part of the Aśvamedha rite. In the rite, the king transferred authority to a priest for a...
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Ritual and Rasa: a Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Recasting of the Role of Ritual Imagination
Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇavas frequently assimilate and recast ancient and established ideas and practices to suit and justify their own theology and goals. The...
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A Locked Room: The Significance of Empathy and Being Seen, Particularly for Older Adults
Joachim Duyndam aims to understand the situation of older adults by exploring the human condition of being fundamentally “isolated” in one’s...
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The Sciencization of Compassion
Recent neuroscientific research has caused a paradigm shift in our understanding of the meaning and scope of compassion. Derived from the Latin root compassiō...