Converted Relationships: Re-negotiating Family Status after Religious Conversion in the Nassau Dynasty

Introduction: Emotions and Conversion

“…Moreover, conversion frequently intersects with (at times transcending and at times limited by) family, gender, class, and racial identities, with emotions inflecting how conversion affects each of these other identities. 7 Focusing on emotions also therefore affords important insights into the effects of religious conversion on these other components of identity, addressing its impact both on the individual's own emotional life and the individual's participation in different emotional communities. 8 How, for instance, does entrance into a new religious community influence one's participation in other communities where they remain involved, though sometimes in changed ways (e.g.…”