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Women, religion, and emotions in modern Germany and beyond

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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 examines 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"-- Provided by publisher.

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Introduction: Women, religion, and the emotions in modern Germany and beyond / Lisa Fetheringill Zwicker and Martina Cucchiara -- Piety, obedience, and contentment : the cultivation of appropriate emotions in maidservants in the Catholic publication Notburga in imperial Germany / Martina Cucchiara -- Faithful beyond death : Jewish widows in imperial Germany / Christian J. Bailey -- Maria Meyer-Sevenich and the politics of emotions, gender, and religion in postwar Germany / Maria D. Mitchell -- "Spiritual motherliness" : gender, emotions, and religion in the kindergarten movement, 1840-1900 / Ann Taylor Allen -- Grief, grace, and the calling to care : emotional scripts and subjectivity in nineteenth-century German Protestant deaconess narratives / Aeleah Soine -- 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 -- Detachment as an "emotional practice" in British convents, 1950s-1970s / Carmen M. Mangion -- Painful love : the suffering of stigmatics in early twentieth-century Germany and Belgi Tine Van Osselaer -- 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 -- Emotion, devotion, and the sacred heart : women's narratives of belief and thanksgiving in the Irish Messenger, 1920s-1950s / Síle de Cléir.

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