TY - CHAP

T1 - Emotional knowledge, emotional styles, and religion

AU - Knoblauch, Hubert

AU - Herbrik, Regine

PY - 2014

Y1 - 2014

N2 - 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.

AB - 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.

KW - Sociology

KW - Religion

KW - Emotion

KW - feeling rules

KW - emotional regime

KW - religion

KW - emotional styles

KW - religious emotions

KW - mediatization

KW - sociology of religion

KW - sociology of emotion

KW - sociology of Knowledge

KW - emotional knowledge

KW - performance

KW - feeling rules

KW - emotional regime

U2 - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659180.003.0024

DO - 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199659180.003.0024

M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies

SN - 978-0-19-965918-0

SP - 356

EP - 371

BT - Collective Emotions

A2 - von Scheve, Christian

A2 - Mikko, Salmela

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -