This article reflects on the place of emotionally arousing ex- periences within religious organisations. Using data obtained through participant observation and interviews, it outlines a research approach for investigations of the interrelationships between particular features of religious practices. Those features have been pointed out in many previous anthropo- logical and sociological works, but few works attempted to analyse connections and interdependencies between con- crete features of religious traditions. The present article takes inspiration from contemporary 'modes of religiosity' theory to explore further the relationships between highly emotion- ally arousing religious experiences and centralised religious authority. Going beyond Whitehouse's theory, it is argued that centralised religious organisations can influence the so- cial features of a religious movement through management of emotionality in ritual practice.
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Emotions and Authority in Religious Organisations
The Case of a New Prayer Group in Contemporary Transcarpathia
Agnieszka Halemba
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Mar 2012
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- Research Article
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- 60–80 (20 total)
Ordinary Violence, Emotion, Information, and Anxiety
Some Themes in Recent Work on Colonial Violence
William Palmer
The study of violence has emerged as an important analytical category for historical analysis, especially in the areas where Europeans attempted to establish either dominance or colonies, such as Ireland, North America, Asia, and the Middle East. This article surveys some recent work on colonial violence, in which historians have tried to distinguish between different types of violence and have pointed to the importance of intelligence gathering, fear, and emotion as analytical tools for understanding the nature of colonial violence.
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2022
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- Research Article
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- 1–21 (20 total)
Lalita Pandit Hogan
This article discusses filmic emotion by focusing on how the dominant color (blue in Gabbeh and Meenaxi; red in Mirch Masala) is used to elicit emotion. Through alienation effect, the viewer is distanced from the aims and goals of characters, and is less likely to experience the sorts of emotions that result from identification. The first two films use multiple frames of narration leading to character(s) in the outer frame becoming like spectators, invested in, for instance, fortune of others emotions that are central to the enjoyment of movies. In Mirch Masala, narration focuses on class struggle; there is minimal engagement with characters' individual aims, goals, and desires. While the red film foregrounds social anger, the blue films foreground consciousness. The three films together ask questions about what makes war and what makes peace, and how human action and human consciousness, represented through colors, figures in all this.
Rainer Reisenzein
illustrates the proposed brand of naturalized aesthetics in a series of case studies that focus on the role of emotions. With these investigations, he continues a trend within film studies that he has himself helped to develop ( Smith 1995 ) and that
Valeria V. Vasilyeva
Professor Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov who gave an extensive introduction to the anthropology of emotions. He analyzed his field data from the north of Krasnoiarskii krai from the perspective of affective turn, and argued that observation of affect may serve as
How Many Emotions Does Film Studies Need?
A Phenomenological Proposal
Julian Hanich
We don't discriminate carefully enough, you know, between things that seem alike but are different. You should always do that. —Richard Ford, Canada It was a success story. Since the 1990s emotion research has been not only “one of
Military Violence in Its Own Right
The Microsocial Foundations of Physical Military Violence in Noncombat Situations
Nir Gazit and Eyal Ben-Ari
behaviors. 2 Second, it involves a much wider array of emotions than those found in combat: not only fear and tension, but also boredom and dullness, anger and hate, excitement and thrill, or tautness and numbness. Data are taken from our work on the
In Conflict and Society
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- 01 Jun 2017
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 189–207 (19 total)
From Morality to Psychology
Emotion Concepts in Urdu, 1870—1920
Margrit Pernau
If we look at photos of the protagonists of Urdu debates in the last decades of the nineteenth century, we mostly see stern-looking figures who look at us without any trace of emotion, much less a smile, their bodily posture as rigid as their facial
In Contributions to the History of Concepts
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 38–57 (20 total)
Feelings in the Field
The Emotional Labour of the Ethnographer
Maria Concetta Lo Bosco
describe our thoughts, questions, concerns and emotions ( Emerson et al. 2011 ), capturing – sometimes in detail and extensively, other times in a haphazard and confusing way – the frankest picture of our field experience. The purpose of this article is
In Anthropology in Action
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- 01 Jun 2021
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- Research Article
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- 8–17 (10 total)
Eloise Grey
right balance of control and expression of emotion was a component of these social skills. For a young man, social recognition may also have included him experiencing premarital sex. 23 Theodore Forbes's time was one of demographic growth in the
In Historical Reflections/Réflexions Historiques
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- 01 Mar 2021
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- Research Article
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- 31–58 (28 total)