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- Title
Experiential Protestantism and Emotional Communities: A Case-Study of an Eighteenth-Century Ego-Document.
- Authors
VAN LIEBURG, FRED
- Abstract
The new history of emotions and the modern history of religion share the important question of the interconnection of mind and body in building and experiencing world views. This article offers a micro-analysis of the complex pattern of cognitions, feelings and practices in a specific context of Protestant culture in the Dutch town of Willemstad in the middle of the eighteenth century. A detailed account of what happened among a group of pious men and women during a single week in 1757 enables us to reveal the interplay of Biblical examples, theological notions, use of language, social interactions and intensive communication in an outburst of spiritual and bodily emotions in a private community within the public order of the confessional state. The case is placed against the background of religious ‘regime change' that allowed people to express their individual and inner faith in and outside the official church or civil organisations.
- Subjects
EMOTIONS &; religion; EMOTIONS; MIND &; body; CALVINISM; PIETISM; NETHERLANDS Reformed Church; ZEGERS, Nicolaas; EIGHTEENTH century; HISTORY; CHRISTIANITY; RELIGION
- Publication
BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2014, Vol 129, Issue 2, p113
- ISSN
0165-0505
- Publication type
Case Study
- DOI
10.18352/bmgn-lchr.9543