Emotion and Religion.

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Awe Activates Religious and Spiritual Feelings and Behavioral Intentions (2012, background): “A variety of positive emotions, such as joy, gratitude, awe, wonder, or hope, may result from R/S experiences (Emmons, 2005), and this may explain the connection between R/S and well-being (Fredrickson, 2002; Fredrickson, Cohn, Cofeey, Pek, & Finkel, 2008).”
Believing, Bonding, Behaving, and Belonging (2011, background): “Religious experience can be marked by, result from, and/or lead to negative emotions (e.g., guilt, sadness, fear, anxiety, anger) or positive emotions (e.g., awe, reverence, gratitude, joy) (Emmons, 2005; Watts, 2007).”
Religion and Well-Being: The Mediating Role of Positive Emotions (2014, background): “2009), mostly self-transcendent ones (Emmons 2005), which in turn benefit well-being.”
Grateful to God or just plain grateful? A comparison of religious and general gratitude (2011, background): “to call gratitude a sacred or spiritual emotion (Emmons, 2005) suggesting that gratitude is uniquely enhanced by religion.”
Religion as a source of variation in the experience of positive and negative emotions (2009, background): “In his review, Emmons (2005) noted the difference between charismatic religions that emphasize intense positive emotions and the contemplative traditions that emphasize calm and temperate emotions, such as Buddhism (see also Tsai et al., 2006, 2007).”