Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism: Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment
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Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism : Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment. / Engelhardt, Juliane.
In: Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2, 01.2019, p. 245-261.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism
T2 - Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment
AU - Engelhardt, Juliane
PY - 2019/1
Y1 - 2019/1
N2 - The article investigates the emotional practices among radical Pietists during their conversion from "false" to "true" Christianity. It argues that melancholy and anxiety were considered necessary and edifying feelings during this process. Through bodily practices, the convert demonstrated that he or she was in a state of affect: a medium for the works of God. Among the wider population in Denmark-Norway, however, the distinction between true and false Christians, employed by both moderate and radical Pietists, caused despair. This article discusses the influence of Pietism on modern emotional categories, and demonstrates how Pietists both relied on old understandings of emotions and created new ones.
AB - The article investigates the emotional practices among radical Pietists during their conversion from "false" to "true" Christianity. It argues that melancholy and anxiety were considered necessary and edifying feelings during this process. Through bodily practices, the convert demonstrated that he or she was in a state of affect: a medium for the works of God. Among the wider population in Denmark-Norway, however, the distinction between true and false Christians, employed by both moderate and radical Pietists, caused despair. This article discusses the influence of Pietism on modern emotional categories, and demonstrates how Pietists both relied on old understandings of emotions and created new ones.
M3 - Journal article
VL - 52
SP - 245
EP - 261
JO - Eighteenth-Century Studies
JF - Eighteenth-Century Studies
SN - 0013-2586
IS - 2
ER -
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