Louise Sundararajan: 2 books
Culture, Cognition, and Emotion in China's Religious Ethnic Minorities
Voices of Suffering among the Yi
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2017
This study examines the suffering narratives of the Bimo and Christian religious communities of the Yi minority who reside in the remote mountains of Sichuan and Yunnan, China, respectively. It is informed by the theoretical framework of ecological rationality, which posits that religions influence...
Understanding Emotion in Chinese Culture
Thinking Through Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
This mind-opening take on indigenous psychology presents a multi-level analysis of culture to frame the differences between Chinese and Western cognitive and emotive styles. Eastern and Western cultures are seen here as mirror images in terms of rationality, relational thinking, and symmetry or harmony....