2015
DOI: 10.1177/0142064x15581319
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Why Do Things Move People? The Jerusalem Temple as Emotional Repository

Abstract: This article brings social-scientific method to bear on a biblical subject by asking the Durkheimian question, 'Why do things move people?', and asking it in relation to the Jerusalem temple. More specifically, drawing upon anthropological study of the emotions, an apparently neglected aspect of temple studies is opened up, namely, whether or not, and if so how, the power of the temple to 'move' people arose in part at least from its function as an emotional repository, the latter understood as consisting of m… Show more

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