Reexamining Foucault on confession and obedience
Peter Schaefer's Radical Pietism as counter-conduct
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3868007 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisa Heinämäki (University of Helsinki, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 133-150 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Research on Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2050-3032 • E-ISSN: 2050-3040 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2050303217707246 |
| OpenAlex | W2613626978 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This article engages with Michel Foucault's idea of confession as the central Christian strategy of subjection or subjectivation and the link he proposes between confession and obedience. The article also wishes to show how confession can become counter-conduct. I apply Foucault's conceptions to early modern Lutheran confessionalism, elucidating how the confessional apparatus of the orthodox Lutheranism of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Sweden strived to mold obedient subjects who are able to conduct themselves. I also examine the transformation and overthrow of these subjectivation techniques in Radical Pietism, analyzing a dissident confession of faith by the Radical Pietist Peter Schaefer, who exemplifies perfect subjection, constituting himself as a perfectly obedient subject, and yet a failure of subjectivation in the sense of submission, insofar as for him, obedience becomes a strategy of empowerment
Confessional · Faith · Michel foucault · Obedience · Pietism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Historical Legal Studies and Society · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0.14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |