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... Starting with a case study demonstrating how religious practices can create consistent emotional reactions across cultures, this chapter examines the relationship between embodiment, emotion, and language by reflecting on the divide between the two branches of affect theory—the Deleuzian...

... This chapter takes as its point of departure the question of how affect theories are inflected and influenced by the emergence across the social sciences and humanities of the elements as a series of disparate matters of concern. First, elements are compositional participants in the (infra...

... It has been common in the last decade to pit some affect theories against others. One effect of this combative style of theorizing is that various affect theories have built up epistemological worlds in isolation from other ideas, data, and imaginations. This chapter follows more closely...

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... This introduction works to shape the sense of affect inquiry as a multivalent field of study. Whereas the first volume's introduction was titled “An Inventory of Shimmers,” this collection advances a “Shimmer of Inventories”—in other words, it argues for an affect theory that is as contingent...

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... This chapter takes as its point of departure the question of how affect theories are inflected and influenced by the emergence across the social sciences and humanities of the elements as a series of disparate matters of concern. First, elements are compositional participants in the (infra...

... This chapter spells out the implications of affect theory by laying out what it can offer religious studies in the wake of the linguistic turn. Where the linguistic turn successfully connected religions to systems of power by focusing on the relationships between religion, language, and history...

... This chapter considers the stakes of the affirmative drive of affect theory. It argues that the insistent affirmationist drive of affect and its foreclosure of the negative is mirrored by and intertwined with the structuring absence of blackness within its precincts. Affect theory's investment...

... aims to unlearn affect theory's tendencies to articulate affect as a generally shareable force and to unlearn one's own scholarly and lived affectscape. Drawing on Tomkins's script theory, it maps lived connections between social valuation and affect in order to revise the tendency to theorize...