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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