Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond
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Europe
History of Emotions
Modern Germany
Nineteenth Century
Private Lives
Public Sphere
Religion
Religious Discourses
Religious Lives
Women
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- ISBN 9781640141742
- Weight: 666g
- Dimensions: 154 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Apr 2025
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Analyzes the role of emotions in the religious lives of women from across Germany and Europe from the nineteenth century to the 1970s.
Scholarship on women and religion has focused primarily on the intersection between women's religious engagement and their emancipation. This volume goes beyond that to examine the vital role religion has played in the private and public lives of German and European women. Because emotions are central to the expression of religiosity, it draws on approaches from the history of emotions to examine how women understood, felt and practiced religion in their search for meaning.
Spanning from the nineteenth century to the 1970s, the volume's essays show how religion helped women make sense of their lives. It also illuminates the degree to which women used religion and its attendant emotional scripts to shape modern society and how religious discourses in turn shaped women's emotions and comportment in the public sphere. The volume builds on recent research that shows that religion-especially the religiosity of women-remained a pressing public concern in modern Europe. From anxieties over the religiosity of Bavarian servants to restrictive norms imposed on Jewish widows, from the interfaith commitments of kindergarten teachers to the autobiographical narratives of aspiring Protestant deaconesses, from the suffering of stigmatics in Germany and Belgium to Irish women's public narratives of their religiosity, this book reveals how women's faith and attendant religious emotions have been central to their public and private lives.
LISA FETHERINGILL ZWICKER is Professor of History at Indiana University, South Bend. MARTINA CUCCHIARA is Professor of History at Bluffton University, Ohio.
