Enthusiasm: emotional practices of conviction in modern Germany

Enthusiasm is desirable, yet dangerous. More than just affective intensity, it entails belief. Combining historical and ethnographic methods, this text explores different styles of religious enthusiasm in Modern Germany, inflected by historical traditions and social milieus, in an effort to understa...

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Main Author: Scheer, Monique 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2020
Edition:First edition
Series:Emotions in history
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Summary:Enthusiasm is desirable, yet dangerous. More than just affective intensity, it entails belief. Combining historical and ethnographic methods, this text explores different styles of religious enthusiasm in Modern Germany, inflected by historical traditions and social milieus, in an effort to understand the modern ambivalence toward this feeling
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
This edition also issued in print: 2021
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (viii, 245 Seiten)
ISBN:9780191895975
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780198863595.001.0001

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