The Role of Culture and Religion in Shaping Emotional Experience: An Exploration of Kushu' in Islamic Prayer.
This essay uses autoethnography to examine how Islam shapes emotional experiences in the prayer ritual, focusing on kushu': an emotion described as a state of fear, reverence, humility, and awe. Drawing on Hochschild's (1983) theory of emotional labor, I argue that kushu' is cultivated through emoti...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Communication & Religion Vol. 48; no. 2; pp. 19 - 31 |
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Religious Communication Association
Winter2025
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| Sumario: | This essay uses autoethnography to examine how Islam shapes emotional experiences in the prayer ritual, focusing on kushu': an emotion described as a state of fear, reverence, humility, and awe. Drawing on Hochschild's (1983) theory of emotional labor, I argue that kushu' is cultivated through emotional management to meet personal and collective religious expectations. Emotional labor is compelled by social scripts (Meng, 2008). Attaining the "correct" emotions reassures the individual of their own authenticity and fosters social solidarity with the collective group. |
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