How Does Faith Feel

The Language and Affect of Belief

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2842036
AutoresCallan Schultz (1 Freie Universität Berlin, autor correspondente)
Ano2019
Volume175
Fascículo4
Páginas506-532
Data de publicação2019-11-08
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379
EditoraWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22134379-17504004
OpenAlexW2987135118
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas31

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