Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond

Professor Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker, Professor Martina Martina Cucchiara (Herausgeber)

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208 Seiten

2025
Camden House Inc (Verlag)
978-1-64014-174-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Preface
Introduction: Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond
Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker and Martina Cucchiara

Part 1: Expectations for Women's Religiosity and Emotions
1. Piety, Obedience, and Contentment: The Cultivation of Appropriate Emotions in Maidservants in the Catholic Publication Notburga in Imperial Germany
Martina Cucchiara
2. Faithful beyond Death: Jewish Widows in Imperial Germany
Christian J. Bailey
3. Maria Meyer-Sevenich and the Politics of Emotions, Gender, and Religion in Postwar Germany
Maria D. Mitchell

Part 2: The Pursuit of Meaningful Work
4. "Spiritual Motherliness": Gender, Emotions, and Religion in the Kindergarten Movement, 1840-1900
Ann Taylor Allen
5. Grief, Grace, and the Calling to Care: Emotional Scripts and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century German Protestant Deaconess Narratives
Aeleah Soine
6. Emotions, Gender, and the Power of Piety in Transnational Contexts: The Norwegian Missionary Marie Monsen and Christian Revival in China, 1927-1932
Karina Hestad Skeie
7. Detachment as an "Emotional Practice" in British Convents, 1950s-1970s
Carmen M. Mangion

Part 3: The Search for Meaning in the Private Realm
8. Painful Love: The Suffering of Stigmatics in Early Twentieth-Century Germany and Belgium
Tine Van Osselaer
9. Grieving at the Crossroads of Heaven and Earth: Anna Bauer's Youthful Diary and Nineteenth-Century Jewish Prayerbooks as Emotional Scripts
Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker and Sarah Wobick-Segev
10. Emotion, Devotion, and the Sacred Heart: Women's Narratives of Belief and Thanksgiving in the Irish Messenger, 1920s-1950s
Síle de Cléir

Notes on the Contributors
Selected Bibliography
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2025
Reihe/Serie	Women and Gender in German Studies
Co-Autor	Professor Ann Taylor Allen, Dr Christian J Bailey, Dr Síle de Cléir
Verlagsort	Columbia, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 229 mm
Gewicht	666 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Religionsgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-64014-174-X / 164014174X
ISBN-13	978-1-64014-174-2 / 9781640141742
Zustand	Neuware