When is an affective state hostile? This chapter aims to show how a phenomenological approach focused on the first-person perspective and the concept of experience can shed light on the main features of hostile affective states (HAS). In particular, the chapter explores the role of the lived body in the definition of HAS, an issue which is not usually addressed in analytical accounts. The...
ABSTRACT: This article argues that religious emotions are variations of general emotions that we already know from our everyday life, which nevertheless exhibit specific features that enable us to think of them as forming a coherent subclass. The article claims that there is an experience of joy, sorrow, regret, fear, and so on that is specifically religious. The aim is to develop an account...