The Ethic of Spirituality and the Non-Angry Subject

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2263751
AutoresDalit Simchai (0000-0001-7785-1389), A Shoshana (0000-0002-9902-5384)
Año2018
Volumen46
Número1
Páginas115-133
Fecha de publicación2018-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/etho.12191
OpenAlexW2793525034
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas11
Referencias citadas39

This article is based on ethnographic studies of several spiritual groups in Israel. It offers a critical analysis of the discursive practices employed with regard to the link between spirituality and anger. We found that the emotion of anger occupies a singular status in New Age culture. By marking it as an uncontrollable and explosive emotion, anger is constructed as a key emotion that reflects and signifies the subject's proximity to the ideal spiritual personality. Our findings furthermore reveal two main emotion pedagogies employed to construct anger and to cope with it. In the discussion section, we address the affinity between the spiritual ethic and the nonangry subject, and the alliance between the spiritual, the therapeutic and the neo-liberal discourses that sustains this affinity. This discursive alliance stands in the way of the adoption of critical cultural orientations toward the emotion of anger. [spirituality, emotions, anger, subjectivity, discursive alliance, emotion pedagogies

Alliance · Anger · Construct (python library) · Epistemology · Sociology · Spirituality · Subject (documents) · Subjectivity · Emotions and Moral Behavior · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology