Religion, Emotion, Sensation
Affect Theories and Theologies

Karen Bray (Edited by), Stephen D. Moore (Edited by), Mathew Arthur (Contributions by), Karen Bray (Contributions by), Amy Hollywood (Contributions by), Wonhee Anne Joh (Contributions by), Dong Sung Kim (Contributions by), Stephen D. Moore (Contributions by), A. Paige Rawson (Contributions by), Erin Runions (Contributions by), Donovan O. Schaefer (Contributions by), Gregory J. Seigworth (Contributions by), Max Thornton (Contributions by), Alexis G. Waller (Contributions by)

9780823285679, Fordham University Press

Hardback, published 3 December 2019

272 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.526 kg

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

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