This volume examines emotions andemotional well-being from a rich variety of theological, philosophical andscientific and therapeutic perspectives. To experience emotion is a part ofbeing human; but what are emotions? How can theology, philosophy and thenatural sciences unpack the nature and content of emotions? This volume is based on contributions to the15th European Conference on Science and Theology held in Assisi, Italy. Itbrings together contributions from scholars of various academic backgrounds from around the world, whose individual insights are made all the richer bytheir juxtaposition with those from experts in other fields, leading to aunique exchange of ideas.
Introduction, Michael Fuller.- Part One: The Importance of Emotions, and of Emotional Well-Being.- 1. Attachment, Emotion and Religion, Pehr Granqvist.- 2. Post Traumatic Stress, Moral Injury, and Soul Repair: Implications for Western Christian Theology, Rita Nakashima Brock.- 3. Shaping Emotions that Shape the World, Marjorie Hall Davis and Karl E. Peters.- 4. Smile and lie? Why we are able to distinguish false smiles from genuine ones, Maria Magdalena Weker.- 5. The Orientation of Longing, Christopher Southgate.- 6. Cognitive or Affective? A Philosophical Analysis of Modes of Understanding Compassion, Anne L.C. Runehov.- Part Two: Reflections on Emotions from the Sciences.- 7. From vicarious actions to moral behavior, Christian Keysers and Valeria Gazzola.- 8. The trouble with words: concepts of religion in the cognitive science of religion and the role of emotions, Indrek Peedu.- 9. The Emotional Brain Hypothesis: Emotional, Social, and Religious Vetting in the Evolution of Rational Decision Making and Scientific Modeling, Margaret Boone Rappaport and Christopher Corbally.- 10. A World of Quality: Codes of Conduct, Phenomenology of Feeling and Morality in Scientific Research, Angela Roothaan.- Part Three: Reflections on Emotions from Theological PerspectivelÓå
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