Religion, Emotion, Sensation
Affect Theories and Theologies
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Religion, Emotion, Sensation asks what affect theory has to say about God or gods, religion or religions, scriptures, theologies, and liturgies. Contributors explore the crossings and crisscrossings between affect theory and theology and the study of religion more broadly, as well as the political and social import of such work.
Bringing together affect theorists, theologians, biblical scholars, and scholars of religion, this volume enacts creative transdisciplinary interventions in the study of affect and religion through exploring such topics as biblical literature, Christology, animism, Rastafarianism, the women’s Mosque Movement, the unending Korean War, the Sewol ferry disaster, trans and gender queer identities, YA fiction, queer historiography, the prison industrial complex, debt and neoliberalism, and death and poetry.
Contributors: Mathew Arthur, Amy Hollywood, Wonhee Anne Joh, Dong Sung Kim, A. Paige Rawson, Erin Runions, Donovan O. Schaefer, Gregory J. Seigworth, Max Thornton, Alexis G. Waller
Religion, Emotion, Sensation responds to the urgent needs of our times with a collection of brilliant essays that place affect theories and religious studies in critical intimacy with prisons, debt, national mourning, ecology and more. The introduction by editors Karen Bray and Stephen D. Moore masterfully frames this moving and inspiring collection.---Patricia Ticineto Clough, Ph.D., The User Unconscious, Affect, Media, Measure
Bringing together affect theorists, theologians, biblical scholars, and scholars of religion, the essays take up topics as various as biblical literature, Christology, animism, Rastafarianism, the women’s Mosque Movement, the unending Korean War, trans and gender queer identities, YA fiction, queer historiography, the prison industrial complex, debt, and neoliberalism.---Interpretation: A Journal of Bible and Theology
Karen Bray (Edited By)
Karen Bray is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Wesleyan College.
Stephen D. Moore (Edited By)
Stephen D. Moore is Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies at the Theological School, Drew University.
Introduction: Mappings and Crossings
Karen Bray and Stephen D. Moore | 1
The Animality of Affect: Religion, Emotion, and Power
Donovan O. Schaefer | 19
Capitalism as Religion, Debt as Interface: Wearing the World
as a Debt Garment
Gregory J. Seigworth | 38
Immobile Theologies, Carceral Affects: Interest
and Debt in Faith-Based Prison Programs
Erin Runions | 55
Affective Politics of the Unending Korean War:
Remembering and Resistance
Wonhee Anne Joh | 85
Weeping by the Water: Hydraulic Affects and Political
Depression in South Korea after Sewol
Dong Sung Kim | 110
Reading (with) Rhythm for the Sake of the (I-n-)Islands:
A Rastafarian Interpretation of Samson as Ambi(val)ent
Affective Assemblage
A. Paige Rawson | 126
The “Unspeakable Teachings” of The Secret Gospel of Mark:
Feelings and Fantasies in the Making of Christian Histories
Alexis G. Waller | 145
Gender: A Public Feeling?
Max Thornton | 174
Writing Affect and Theology in Indigenous Futures
Mathew Arthur | 187
Feeling Dead, Dead Feeling
Amy Hollywood | 206
Acknowledgments | 219
List of Contributors | 221
Index | 225
