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Judaism and Emotion

Texts, Performance, Experience

by Sarah Ross (Volume editor) Gabriel Levy (Volume editor) Soham Al-Suadi (Volume editor)
©2013 Monographs XI, 177 Pages
Series: Studies in Judaism, Volume 7

Summary

Judaism and Emotion breaks with stereotypes that, until recently, branded Judaism as a rigid religion of laws and prohibitions. Instead, authors from different fields of research discuss the subject of Judaism and emotion from various scholarly perspectives; they present an understanding of Judaism that does not exclude spirituality and emotions from Jewish thought. In doing so, the contributions account for the relation between the representation of emotion and the actual emotions that living and breathing human beings feel in their everyday lives. While scholars of rabbinic studies and theology take a historical-critical and socio-historical approach to the subject, musicologists and scholars of religious studies focus on the overall research question of how the literary representations of emotion in Judaism are related to ritual and musical performances within Jewish worship. They describe in a more holistic fashion how Judaism serves to integrate various aspects of social life. In doing so, they examine the dynamic interrelationship between Judaism, cognition, and culture.

Details

Pages
XI, 177
Year
2013
ISBN (PDF)
9781453910443
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433118722
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-1044-3
Language
English
Publication date
2013 (November)
Keywords
spirituality social life theology
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2013. 177 pp., num. ill.

Biographical notes

Sarah Ross (Volume editor) Gabriel Levy (Volume editor) Soham Al-Suadi (Volume editor)

Sarah Ross obtained her PhD at the University of Music and Theatre Rostock, Germany. She currently works as a university assistant (post-doc researcher), lecturer, and study counselor at the Department of Musicology as well as at the Centre for Cultural Studies at the University of Berne, Switzerland. She is a winner of the Hadassah-Brandeis-Institute Research Award, Brandeis University/USA (2004). From 2006 to 2009, she obtained a doctoral fellowship of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation). She has published widely on American Jewish women’s music and other subjects. Gabriel Levy obtained his PhD in religious studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and Religious Studies at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the author of Judaic Technologies of the Word: A Cognitive Analysis of Jewish Cultural Formation (2012). Soham Al-Suadi obtained her PhD at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is currently a university assistant (post-doc), lecturer, and researcher at the Institute of Biblical Studies (New Testament) at the Faculty of Theology at the University of Berne. She is in the process of writing her second book on early Christian prophecy.

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