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Philosophical anthropology --- Pain --- Ritual --- Religious aspects. --- Psychology. --- 291.4 --- 248.218 --- 248.233 --- -Ritual --- -Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Aches --- Emotions --- Pleasure --- Senses and sensation --- Symptoms --- Analgesia --- Suffering --- Godsdienstwetenschap: religieus leven; ascese; vroomheid; mystiek --- Mystiek lijden --- Excessen in geestelijke concentratie en kastijding --- Religious aspects --- Psychology --- -Godsdienstwetenschap: religieus leven; ascese; vroomheid; mystiek --- 248.233 Excessen in geestelijke concentratie en kastijding --- 248.218 Mystiek lijden --- 291.4 Godsdienstwetenschap: religieus leven; ascese; vroomheid; mystiek --- -248.233 Excessen in geestelijke concentratie en kastijding --- Cult --- Pain - Religious aspects. --- Ritual - Psychology.

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All religions describe spiritual experience as pleasant, and the goal of the religious pursuit as profoundly joyful. But many religions also condemn sensory pleasures and the desire for objects of pleasure. In this book, Ariel Glucklich resolves this apparent contradiction by showing how religious practices that instill self-control and discipline transform one type of pleasure into the pleasures of mastery and play. Using historical data and psychological analysis, he details how the rituals, mystical practices, moral teachings, and sacred texts of the world's religions act as psychological instruments that induce well-being. Glucklich also shows that in promoting joy and pleasure, religion also strengthens social bonds and enhances an individual's pursuit of meaning.

Pleasure --- Experience (Religion) --- Spiritual life --- Religious experience --- Psychology, Religious --- Religious aspects. --- Christianity.

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Why would anyone seek out the very experience the rest of us most wish to avoid? Why would religious worshipers flog or crucify themselves, sleep on spikes, hang suspended by their flesh, or walk for miles through scorching deserts with bare and bloodied feet?. In this insightful new book, Ariel Glucklich argues that the experience of ritual pain, far from being a form of a madness or superstition, contains a hidden rationality and can bring about a profound transformation of the consciousness and identity of the spiritual seeker. Steering a course between purely cultural and purely biological

Pain -- Religious aspects. --- Ritual -- Psychology. --- Pain --- Ritual --- Religious aspects --- Psychology --- Religious aspects. --- Psychology.

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religious self-destructiveness --- nuclear deterrence --- pleasure --- religious pleasure --- the School for Happiness --- sacrifice --- God's Love --- spiritual love --- martyrdom --- religion