Culture, Cognition, and Emotion in China's Religious Ethnic Minorities Voices of Suffering among the Yi /

• Main Authors: Ting, Rachel Sing-Kiat (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Sundararajan, Louise (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Indigenous Psychology
• Subjects: Cross-cultural psychology.; Cognitive psychology.; Emotions.; Ethnicity.; Neuropsychology.; Psychology and religion.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Cognitive Psychology.; Emotion.; Ethnicity Studies.; Religion and Psychology.

This study examines the suffering narratives of two religious communities-Bimo and Christian-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 emotions influence,...

Table of Contents:

• 1. First things first-Research Orientation and Background information on two Yi communities in Southwest China
• 2. Narratives of Suffering
• 3. Suffering and Worldviews
• 4. Help-Seeking in Suffering
• 5. Emotions of Suffering
• 6. Towards a Reflexive Indigenous Psychology
• 7. Challenges and Future Directions.