Abstract
Why do people willfully expose themselves to physical pain? How does pain become a
positive experience? Investigating these questions in the extremely different areas of
religion and sexual practice demonstrates commonalities in the application of a general
affective mechanism involved in the rendering of pain. Identity, practice, and institution
share a frame that is so powerful that we take this contextual interconnection for granted
and generally overlook similarities of affective mechanisms in religion and sexuality.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 285-289 |
| Journal | Social Psychology Quartely |
| State | Published - 2009 |