Enthusiasm
Emotional Practices of Conviction in Modern Germany
Enthusiasm seeks to contribute to a culturally and historically nuanced understanding of how emotions secure and ratify the truth of convictions. More than just pure affective intensity, enthusiasm is about something: a certainty, clarity, or truth. Neither as clearly negative as fanaticism nor as general as passion, enthusiasm specifically entails belief. For this reason, the book takes its starting point in religion, the social arena in which the conceptwas first debated and to which the term still gestures. Empirically based in modern German Protestantism, where religious emotion is intensely cultivated but also subject to vigorous scrutin…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-260890-1
- EAN: 9780192608901
- Produktnummer: 35522107
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'646 KB
Über den Autor
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 MulticulturalSocieties (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.
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