Enthusiasm emotional practices of conviction in modern Germany Scheer, Monique creator author. text bibliography Electronic books. History enk 2020 2020 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource (256 pages). "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, Enthusiasm 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, this book 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. This book shows that, 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. Finally, 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"--Publisher's description. 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 -- Awkward enthusiasts: emotionalizing atheism in Berlin -- Conclusion: enchanting conviction: "enthusiasm" as an analytical term. Specialized. specialized Monique Scheer. Includes bibliographical references and index. e-gx--- Enthusiasm Religious aspects Protestantism Germany History 19th century Belief and doubt Germany Religious life and customs Experience (Religion) Protestantisme Allemagne Histoire 19e siècle Croyance et doute Allemagne Vie religieuse Expérience religieuse Belief and doubt Enthusiasm Religious aspects Experience (Religion) Protestantism Germany 1800-1899 fast BX4844 .S34 2020 280.4094309034 Enthusiasm Scheer, Monique. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020 (OCoLC)1222804187 Emotions in history 9780192608918 0192608916 9780191895975 0191895970 9780198863595 0198863594 http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://academic.oup.com/book/31993 AU@ 201015 20260319183733.6 in00005720054 eng