Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies

Christian von Scheve is professor of sociology at Freie Universität Berlin.Anna Lea Berg is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Chicago.Meike Haken is research associate of the Collaborative Research Center Affective Societies working in a project on "Audience Emotions in Sports and Religion" at Technische Universität Berlin.Nur Yasemin Ural is a post-doctoral researcher at the Freie Universität Berlin.

• 1. Introduction: Affect and Emotion in Multi-Religious Secular Societies; Part I: Historical Intertwinements of Religion and Emotion; 2. Feeling Empty: Religious and Secular Collaborations; 3. Emotion and the Popularization of Anti-Jewish Discourse in Early Modern Europe; 4. Guilt or Masked Shame? Reinhold Niebuhr’s Diagnosis of the Christian Self: Disclosing Affect and its Contribution to Violence; Part II: Affects, Emotions, and Religiosity; 5. From Serene Certainty to the Paranoid Insecurity of Salvation: Remarks on Resentment in the Current Muslim Culture; 6. The Practice of Vision: Sufi Aesthetics in Everyday Life; 7. Religious Emotions in Christian Events; 8. On Conversion: Affecting Secular Bodies; 9. The Metaphorics of Indescribable Feelings in Contemporary Christian Contexts; Part III: Sensibilities of the Secular; 10. Disembedded Religion and the Infinity of References: Violated Sentiments and Threatened Identities; 11. Secular Excitement and Academic Practice; 12. The Secular Experiment: Science, Feeling, and Atheist Apocalypticism; 13. Feeling Freedom of Speech: Secular Affects in Public Debates after Charlie Hebdo.