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GSTR 310: Curry (Fall 2019)
Affect Theory and the Study of Christianity
Course Readings
Introduction to the study of Christianity
Unit 1: Affective Foundations
Unit 2: Christianity’s Affective Foundations
Unit 3: Affecting Christian Personhood; Creating Christian Persons
Unit 4: Christian Feeling At War
Unit 5: Contemporary Feeling: Affective Theological Currents
Additional Resources
Introduction to the study of Christianity
“Introduction: Why The Middle Ages Matter”
by
Clifford R. Backman
Publication Date: 2014
from the book
The Worlds of Medieval Europe
Unit 1: Affective Foundations
“Affective Economies”
by
Sara Ahmed
Publication Date: 2004
from the journal
Social Text
“Introduction: Feel Your Way”
by
Sara Ahmed
Publication Date: 2014
from the book
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
“Shame in the Cybernetic Fold”
by
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick & Adam Frank
Publication Date: 1995
from the journal
Critical Inquiry
"The Autonomy of Affect"
by
Brian Massumi
Publication Date: 1995
from the journal
Cultural Critique
Other*wise(?) Introductions to Affect
“Feeling, Emotion, Affect”
by
Eric Shouse
Publication Date: 2005
from the
M/C Journal
“An Inventory of Shimmers"
by
Melissa Gregg (Editor); Gregory J. Seigworth (Editor)
Publication Date: 2010
from the book
The Affect Theory Reader
“The Contingency of Pain”
by
Sara Ahmed
Publication Date: 2014
from the book
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Affect Theory and the Study of Religion
“Affect Theory and the Study of Religion”
by
Jenna Supp-Montgomerie
Publication Date: 2015
from the journal
Religion Compass
"Cavafy, Proust, and the Queer Little Gods"
by
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick; Jonathan Goldberg (Editor); Michael Moon (Editor)
Publication Date: 2011
from the book from
The Weather in Proust
“What is Affect Theory?”
by
Donovan Schaefer
Publication Date: 2016
blog post
“Chapter 4: Compulsion: Affect, Desire, and Materiality"
by
Donovan O. Schaefer
Publication Date: 2015
from the book
Religious Affects
“The Organization of Hate”
by
Sara Ahmed
Publication Date: 2014-07-25
from the book
The Cultural Politics of Emotion
Unit 2: Christianity’s Affective Foundations
Introduction to the Hebrew Bible
by
John J. Collins
Publication Date: 2004
An Introduction to the New Testament
by
Raymond E. Brown; Marion Soards (Editor)
Publication Date: 2016
Unit 3: Affecting Christian Personhood; Creating Christian Persons
“The Temptation of Saint Anthony”
by
Yale University Art Gallery
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Unit 4: Christian Feeling At War
Unit 5: Contemporary Feeling: Affective Theological Currents
“Zurara’s Tears”
by
Willie James Jennings
Publication Date: 2011
from
The Christian Imagination
“Introduction”
by
Ashon T. Crawley
Publication Date: 2016
from the book
Blackpentecostal Breath
“Ambivalent Loves: Christian Theologies, Queer Theologies”
by
Linn Marie Tonstad
Publication Date: 2017
from the journal
Literature & Theology
Additional Resources
"Affective Labor"
by
Michael Hardt
Publication Date: 1999
from the journal
boundary 2
"Affect Theory, Religion, and Sport"
by
Eric Bain-Selbo
Publication Date: 2019
from the journal
Religions
"Religious Reason and Secular Affect: An Incommensurable Divide?"
by
Saba Mahmood
Publication Date: 2009
from the journal
Critical Inquiry
We "Other Victorians"
by
Michel Foucault; Robert Hurley (Translator)
Publication Date: 1990
from the book
The History of Sexuality
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