ABSTRACT
This chapter considers what lies behind the sort of social claim made in the verse, and in this case the technology is partly the use of emotions. The chapter focuses the power of emotion to change minds and shape communities and Galatians 3:28 is the example. Disgust, claims Nussbaum, is an impediment to equal access to justice. The distinction between reason and emotion is the focus of the work of Antonio Damasio. The cultural context of the Pauline groups has some further bearing on the experience of awe. The cross-cultural studies of Goetz et al. highlight the preference in Western cultures for simple or singular emotional states and the intolerance for emotional complexity. The chapter illustrates the way that social attitudes and constructions of group identity are not only ideas or the historical record of experiences of conflict. The religious context is further signaled by the mention of the ritual of baptism.
