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Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality

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Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality

Wonder: From Emotion to Spirituality
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press | pages: 200 | 2006 | ISBN: 0807829951 | PDF | 11,4 mb

It seems self-contradictory that one could write tediously about wonder, but religious studies scholar Fuller (Spiritual but Not Religious: Understanding Unchurched America) manages to do just that as he chronicles the study of wonder's evolutionary-adaptive uses in Darwin's The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals and its ethical applications in philosopher Martha Nussbaum's writings on emotions. Wonder opens us to an unseen world beyond ourselves, Fuller observes, permitting us to think of wonder more as a religious sensibility than an emotion. Fuller offers short case studies—of John Muir, William James and Rachel Carson—to show how these three saw the world around them as an ineffable mystery whose organic unity calls for an experience of wonder rather than a cold scientific explanation.