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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 October 2020
- ISBN 9780198863595
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 241x164x19 mm
- Weight 540 g
- Language English 50
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Short description:
Enthusiasm is desirable, yet dangerous. More than just affective intensity, it entails belief. Combining historical and ethnographic methods, this book explores different styles of religious enthusiasm in Modern Germany, inflected by historical traditions and social milieus, in an effort to understand the modern ambivalence toward this feeling.
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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 concept was 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 scrutiny, it combines historical and ethnographic methods to show how enthusiasm has been negotiated and honed as a practice in Protestant denominations ranging from liberal to charismatic. The nexus of religion and emotion and how it relates to central concepts of modernity such as rationality, knowledge, interiority, and sincerity are key to understanding why moderns are so ambivalent about enthusiasm. Grounded in practice theory, Enthusiasm assumes that emotions are not an affective state we 'have' but mind-body activations we 'do', having learned to perform them in culturally specific ways. When understood as an emotional practice, enthusiasm has different styles, inflected by historical traditions, social milieus, and knowledge (even ideologies) about emotions and how they work. Enthusiasm also provides insight into how this feeling works in secular humanism as well as in politics, and why it is so contested as a practice in any context.
I highly recommend this book not only to readers with a particular focus on emotions, religious studies and social sciences, but also to those who have a broader interest in the role of emotions in the wide field of cultural history, media studies and the arts.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Enthusiasm as an Emotional Practice
Emotional Ideologies: A Brief Archeology of Terms and Theories
Safeguarding Interiority: Debates over Protestant Enthusiasm in Nineteenth-Century Germany
Free to Follow the Feeling: Doubt as Material Practice
Styles of Sincerity: On the Morality of Performances of Enthusiasm
Enchanting Conviction: 'Enthusiasm' as an Analytical Term
Conclusion: Awkward Enthusiasts: Emotionalizing Atheism in Berlin
