Some people use affect theory to challenge the notion that religion is inextricably linked to belief and language, proposing instead that body and affect are more primary. It’s good to affirm bodies, feeling, emotions, affects, but that isn’t the way to do it. It’s a red herring, challenging a notion about belief that nobody really believes (i.e., the notion that religion is inextricably linked to language and belief). Continue reading
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Affects, Bodies, Religions
By Sam Mickey
1 Comment | tags: affect, body, D. T. Suzuki, deconstruction, hermeneutics, mysterium tremendum, Ninian Smart, pars construens, pars destruens, Paul Tillich, Rudolf Otto | posted in theology and religion
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