Emotional knowledge, emotional styles, and religion

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This chapter deals with collective emotions from a sociological point of view. It focuses on emotions that can be observed where religion is celebrated and religiosity is played out and lived. Thereby, it relates to the findings of recent ethnographic research that compared newer Christian congregations with a Pentecostal or evangelical orientation to Christian parishes of the Evangelical Church in Germany or the Roman Catholic Church with regard to their respective emotional culture. After discussing some theoretical reflections on the concepts of emotion and experience in the history of the sociology of religion, the role of emotional knowledge for the religious life is considered. Both the knowledge that is gained via emotions and the knowledge about emotions are thereby taken into account. Both categories of knowledge are respectively linked with the well-known concepts of “feeling rules” and “emotional regimes,” and also with the concept of “emotional styles” that the authors used for their interpretation of qualitative, empirical data.
Translated title of the contributionEmotionales Wissen, emotionale Stile und Religion
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationCollective Emotions : Perspectives from Psychology, Philosophy, and Sociology
EditorsChristian von Scheve, Salmela Mikko
Number of pages16
Place of PublicationOxford
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date2014
Pages356-371
ISBN (Print)978-0-19-965918-0
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Publication statusPublished - 2014

    Research areas

  • Sociology - religion, emotional styles, religious emotions, mediatization, sociology of religion, sociology of emotion, sociology of Knowledge, emotional knowledge, performance, feeling rules, emotional regime