Religious affects : animality, evolution, and power / Donovan O. Schaefer.

Durham : Duke University Press, [2015]

xii, 286 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-279) and index.

Religion, language, and affect -- Intransigence : power, embodiment, and the two types of affect theory -- Teaching religion, emotion, and global cinema -- Compulsion : affect, desire, and materiality -- Savages : ideology, primatology, and Islamophobia -- Accident: animalism, evolution, and affective economies -- A theory of the waterfall dance : on accident, language, and animal religion.