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Religious Awe

Religious Awe is a transcendent emotional state, belonging to the genus of religious emotions, differentiaed by its intense feeling of reverence, wonder, and self-transcendence in response to perceived divine presence, sacred majesty, or ultimate mystery.

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21

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14

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2017–2026

2

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Publications

18

Approaching awe, a moral, spiritual, and aesthetic emotion

Dacher Keltner, Jonathan Haidt · Cognition & Emotion · 2003 · 2K citations

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Awe activates religious and spiritual feelings and behavioral intentions.

Patty Van Cappellen, Vassilis Saroglou · Psychology of Religion and Spirituality · 2011 · 366 citations

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Assessing whether practical wisdom and awe of God are associated with life satisfaction.

Neal Krause, R. David Hayward · Psychology of Religion and Spirituality · 2014 · 97 citations

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How to capture the ‘wow’: R.R. Marett's notion of awe and the study of religion <sup>⋆</sup>

Birgit Meyer · Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 2015 · 80 citations · Full text

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Beyond Mysterium Tremendum: Thoughts toward an Aesthetic Study of Religious Experience

Omar M. McRoberts · The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 2004 · 55 citations

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Authors

21

  1. RD
    R. David Hayward

    University of Michigan, United States

    2 publications · 130 citations

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  2. NK
    Neal Krause

    University of Michigan, United States

    2 publications · 130 citations

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  3. PV
    Patty Van Cappellen

    Duke University, United States

    2 publications · 382 citations

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  4. JH
    Jonathan Haidt

    University of Virginia, United States

    1 publications · 2K citations

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  5. FF
    Francis Fukuyama

    Stanford University, United States

    1 publications · 13 citations

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Institutions

14

  1. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

    2 h-index

    4 publications

    260 citations

  2. Duke University

    Durham, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    32 citations

  3. University of Virginia

    Charlottesville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    2K citations

  4. Queens College, CUNY

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  5. University of Applied Sciences Utrecht

    Utrecht, Netherlands

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    80 citations

  6. UCLouvain

    Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    732 citations

  7. Social Science Research Council

    New York, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    32 citations

  8. Pepperdine University

    Malibu, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    11 citations

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Venues

  1. Midwest Studies in Philosophy

    2 publications · 33 citations

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  2. Psychology of Religion and Spirituality

    2 publications · 463 citations

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  4. Review of Religious Research

    1 publications · 33 citations

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  5. The American Historical Review

    AHR · 1 publications · 46 citations

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