How Does Faith Feel
The Language and Affect of Belief
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2842036 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Callan Schultz (1 Freie Universität Berlin, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 175 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 506-532 |
| Publication date | 2019-11-08 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379 |
| Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1163/22134379-17504004 |
| OpenAlex | W2987135118 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 31 |
Research on emotion in anthropology has been supplanted by an ethnographic turn toward 'subjectivity', 'embodiment', 'personhood', and 'experience'. In this article, I explore how these interrelated modes of analysis can help ethnographers to better understand the cultural processes that constitute how people feel. I show that among my Christian Dusun interlocutors in Ranau, Malaysian Borneo, the interactive engagement between subjects and their environment determined the vectors of emotional possibility in terms of belief. The intersection of religious objects (God, the Holy Spirit, Satan) and mutual obligations in the community produce what I refer to as the 'faith network'. I trace these collective attachments to consider how 'believing in' regulates feeling in relation to situations of crisis, impasse, and tragedy. The combined efforts of my interlocutors, I suggest, created an active commitment that pulsated through the faith network, which sustained an intensive and defining mode of their relational experience
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Ethnography · Faith · Feeling · Personhood · Relation (database · Sociology · Subjectivity · TRACE (psycholinguistics) · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Asian Studies and History · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |