Эмоции и религия: перспективы теоретического исследования

Abstract

The article deals with approaches to the theoretical study of emotions associated with religious experience. The purpose of the article is to analyze the prospects for the theoretical study of “religious emotions” in the “emotional turn” of contemporary humanities and social sciences. To determine the general frame of emotional-religious discourse, the phenomenological and anthropological research perspectives in the considered disciplinary field are investigated, as well as the confrontation of the universalist and constructivist approaches to the emotional nature of human in contemporary studies of emotions. Religious-emotional discourse is concretized by the example of explaining fear and using it within the framework of theories of the origin of religion. Religious fear is considered in the context of the phenomenological definition of religious feeling as the inexpressible “feeling of creature”, “numinous feeling”, “sublime feeling”. In conclusion, the author focuses on the dichotomy of “internal” and “external” for understanding religious experience as a subjective religious experience and its external expression through ritual, bodily and other practices, as well as on the use of modern evolutionary concepts to relieve tension between the universalist and constructivist views on the origin and development of human emotions.