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| author |
Amelia Hart Wayne
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The Pleasure in the Work: An Affective Modality for Philosophy of Religion
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This dissertation examine how circulating social affects and emerging affective norms after the European reformation(s) contributed to the formation of the secular academic study of religion in Europe, by configuring "religion" as an object of study in relation to other modes of secular knowledge production: especially disciplines of philosophy, history, and anthropology. It tracks how disciplinary and theoretical investments in forms of affective normativity helped to produce and sustain colonial epistemologies, which continue to shape the philosophy of religion. It historicizes affective repertoires as secular techniques for managing knowledge production as part of the colonial project. It argues that affective dynamics have always participated in normative secular academic approaches to "religion." Finally, it considers how theories of affect might reinvigorate philosophy of religion as a generative nexus at the convergence of religious studies, theology, and philosophy.
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The Theological School, Drew University
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Ph.D. (2025)
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| advisor |
Chris Boesel
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| committee |
Catherine Keller
Donovan Schaefer
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