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Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies book cover

1st Edition

Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies

Edited By Christian von Scheve, Anna Berg, Meike Haken, Nur Ural Copyright 2020
264 Pages
by Routledge

262 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

262 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Emotions have moved center stage in many contemporary debates over religious diversity and multicultural recognition. As in other contested fields, emotions are often one-sidedly discussed as quintessentially subjective and individual phenomena, neglecting their social and cultural constitution. Moreover, emotionality in these debates is frequently attributed to the religious subject alone,... Read more

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.

Biography

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.

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