ABSTRACT
Wilber's framework shows the close relationship between emotions and memories which points to the work of Danile Hervieu-Lger, who conceptualises religion as a chain of memory and thus examines the ways in which religion is transmitted from generation to generation, a topic that is pertinent to the project on mixed-faith families. The sociology of emotions emerged in the United States in the 1970s and 1980s and took hold in the UK during the 1990s. Ken Wilber's integral framework maps the subjective as one of four fields, the other fields being the intersubjective, objective and interobjective. The methodological issues and challenges we encountered are recorded in Eleanor Nesbitt and Elisabeth Arweck, Issues Arising from an Ethnographic Investigation of the Religious Identity Formation of Young People in Mixed-Faith Families. Sociologists of emotions have argued that understanding emotions are essential to the pursuit of knowledge and that the relationship between them should be re-thought.
