As discussed above in Sect. 4.3 , the study of religion has in recent decades shifted its focus from institutional (or official) religion to lived (or everyday) religion. What various anthropological and sociological studies have made clear is that the two types of religiosity are motivated by somewhat different concerns. While professional theologians and religious scholars may spend their working hours pondering questions such as, “Does an omniscient God know in advance who will go to Hell?,” everyday religiosity is motivated by questions that are much more personal, such as “Will my father recover from cancer?” Intimately linked to the social relationships and other circumstances of religious practitioners’ everyday lives, such questions are typically laden with emotions. Accordingly, as part of the paradigm shift from institutional to lived religion, scholars are increasingly interested in the emotional aspects of religiosity (Ammerman, 2016, p. 90).