Feeling and Faith--Religious Emotions in German History

Eitler, Pascal; Hitzer, Bettina; Scheer, Monique

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“…People may strategically evoke emotions or avoid doing them precisely because feeling does particular kinds of creative work. This, in turn, means that to feel involves varying degrees of risk, uncertainty and effort, and brings about different kinds of social change (Frevert et al, 2014;Davison et al, 2018;Eitler et al, 2014).…”

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Emotion as creative practice: Linking creativity and wellbeing through the history and sociology of emotion

Kiernan

2020

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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This article draws on recent developments in the history of emotion and the sociology of creativity to argue that emotions themselves may be viewed as creative practices. After an initial, broad overview of key historical and epistemological complexities in emotions research, it describes a framework for understanding emotion (and the history of emotion) proposed by Monique Scheer (2012), which is grounded in the practice theory of French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. In Scheer's view, emotions should not be viewed as fundamentally internal physiological or psychological states, but as the practices to which those states are inextricably linked, and by which they are mobilized, named, communicated and regulated. The article then describes a sociological framework for understanding creativity proposed by Janet Chan (2016), which is also underpinned by Bourdieu's practice theory, and which posits that creativity is an inherent feature of all social action and may generate social change via institutionalized cultural practice or cultural revolt, the latter of which may itself take at least three forms. It then links Scheer's and Chan's frameworks together, explaining how, from this sociological perspective, emotions can be understood as creative practices, as embodied acts of thinking performed in habituated ways and which themselves generate change by doing different types of creative work. It proposes a new four-part framework for categorizing emotions as creative practices, based on Chan's framework for creativity: 1) emotion as institutionalized cultural practice; 2) emotion as cultural edgework; 3) emotion as cultural transcendence; and 4) emotion as cultural transformation. It concludes by suggesting that this framework provides an original and useful way of explaining the role of emotion in generating social and historical change, and of explaining the link between creativity and wellbeing from a sociological perspective.

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Emotion as creative practice: Linking creativity and wellbeing through the history and sociology of emotion

Kiernan

2020

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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“…Nonetheless, the way these feelings were embodied can also be the source of deep conflict in certain religious communities when other members of the same faith rather adhere to a restrained and inner experience of religion. 25 Crucially, therefore, historians have come to see how these embodiments often interact with political and gendered ideologies of the body. 26 As a result, it is now common sense for historians of emotions to think of them not as an entirely cognitive process but as something that is always embodied; something people not just passively experience but that they actively do.…”

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Bureaucracy and Emotions - Perspectives across Disciplines

Collin

Garot²,

Groot³

2018

Administory

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In traditional administrative models the public servant is emotionally conceptualized in a specific way, namely as a rationally acting and emotionally abstinent person. However, these are also models of observation that are strongly guided on the one hand by normative ideas and on the other by historical master narratives that focus on the development of a specifically occidental rationality. In particular, the emotional turn in historical science inspires us to take a critical view of such assumptions. But other approaches developed in other scientific disciplines also stimulate us to sharpen our historical view of the emotional aspects of bureaucracy: in jurisprudence “Law and Emotions” and in sociology “Sociology of Emotions”. This article presents these scientific approaches and tries to sound out their usefulness for the history of administration. In this way, it also serves as an introduction to this volume of the journal Administory.

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Books, dress, and emotions in the memoirs of the clergyman Johan Frosterus (1720–1809)

Räisänen-Schröder¹

2016

Scandinavian Journal of History

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This article investigates the gendered expressions of emotions in regard to experienced material hardship and professional aspirations in the memoirs of a Lutheran clergyman in 18th-century Finland, Johan Frosterus (1720-1809). In his narrative, Frosterus links the material hardship of his parents during the Great Northern War with the material difficulties he himself experienced during his young adulthood. In retrospect, he underlines the lack of books and appropriate clothing that stood in the way of his aspirations to establish himself socially and professionally as a clergyman, eligible both for a clerical position and marriage. Patronage and the emotional and material help through family members, especially Frosterus' mother, are discussed as central parts of this process. The narrative describes both the emotions linked to the lack of these objects and the social relationships surrounding these status symbols, offering valuable insights into how materiality and emotions interact with constructions of masculinity -and in particular, clerical masculinity -in early modern life writing.

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Feeling and Faith--Religious Emotions in German History

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Emotion as creative practice: Linking creativity and wellbeing through the history and sociology of emotion

Emotion as creative practice: Linking creativity and wellbeing through the history and sociology of emotion

Bureaucracy and Emotions - Perspectives across Disciplines

Books, dress, and emotions in the memoirs of the clergyman Johan Frosterus (1720–1809)

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