Enthusiasm: Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany

ISBN-13: 9780198863595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 256 str.

Monique Scheer

Recenzje

This amazing book offers a fresh historical-ethnographic exploration of the emotional styles deployed in the Protestant spectrum and their — barely realized — embodied sediments in secular emotional registers and sensibilities in Germany. This insightful analysis of Protestantism's role in shaping how people "do" emotions is of major interest not only for scholars of religion, but for anyone seeking to understand the power of emotional styles in mobilizing people. Deploying "enthusiasm" as a productive concept to analyse how people become dedicated to a cause and convinced of a sense of truth, Monique Scheer opens up new vistas for the scholarship on religion and emotion beyond the secular-religious divide. Wow!

O autorze

Monique Scheer is Professor of Historical and Cultural Anthropology (Empirische Kulturwissenschaft) at the University of Tübingen, where she also serves as Vice-Rector for International Affairs. Most recently, she has co-edited Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions: European Perspectives (Bloomsbury, 2019) with Nadia Fadil and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen and The Public Work of Christmas: Difference and Belonging in Multicultural Societies (McGill-Queens UP, 2019) with Pamela E. Klassen. She is also co-editor-in-chief of the journal Ethnologia Europaea and on the editorial board of Geschichte and Gesellschaft.