Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies

ISBN-13: 9780367777197 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 252 str.

Christian Von Scheve; Anna Berg; Meike Haken

Opis

As in other contested fields, emotions are often one-sidedly discussed as quintessentially subjective and individual phenomena, neglecting their social and cultural constitution. This volume addresses these shortcomings, bringing into conversation a variety of disciplinary perspectives on religious and secular affect and emotion.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies;  Part I: Historical Intertwinements of Religion and Emotion;  2. Feeling Empty: Religious and Secular Collaborations;  3. Emotion and the Popularization of Anti-Jewish Discourse in Early Modern Europe;  4. Guilt or Masked Shame? Reinhold Niebuhr’s Diagnosis of the Christian Self: Disclosing Affect and its Contribution to Violence;  Part II: Affects, Emotions, and Religiosity;  5. From Serene Certainty to the Paranoid Insecurity of Salvation: Remarks on Resentment in the Current Muslim Culture;  6. The Practice of Vision: Sufi Aesthetics in Everyday Life;  7. Religious Emotions in Christian Events;  8. On Conversion: Affecting Secular Bodies;  9. The Metaphorics of Indescribable Feelings in Contemporary Christian Contexts;  Part III: Sensibilities of the Secular;  10. Disembedded Religion and the Infinity of References: Violated Sentiments and Threatened Identities; 11. Secular Excitement and Academic Practice;  12. The Secular Experiment: Science, Feeling, and Atheist Apocalypticism;  13. Feeling Freedom of Speech: Secular Affects in Public Debates after Charlie Hebdo.

O autorze

Christian von Scheve is professor of sociology at Freie Universität Berlin.

Anna Lea Berg is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.

Meike Haken is research associate of the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies working in a project on "Audience Emotions in Sports and Religion" at Technische Universität Berlin.

Nur Yasemin Ural is a post-doctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin.