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SUMMARY:CERES Forschungskolloquium
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UID:taking-christianity-to-therapy-emotional-identity-14167@ceres.rub.de
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DESCRIPTION:Taking Christianity to Therapy. Emotional Identity Work at an 
 Evangelical Megachurch (Ariane Kovac)\n\nWhen people speak critically of e
 vangelical Christianity\, they often target emotions. Evangelicals get por
 trayed as angry fire-and-brimstone preachers\, or their ‘shiny happy’ 
 positivity is accused of being hypocritical. Evangelicals level these same
  criticisms against each other. Different strands of evangelicalism tend t
 o agree on many theological questions but disagree about what counts as le
 gitimate and authentic expressions of emotion. Progressive evangelicals cr
 iticize the rigid—and in their view\, performative—positivity of more 
 conservative churches. These progressives frame their difference in therap
 eutic language of recovering from “burnout” or “trauma.” In my dis
 sertation\, I explore how different understandings of emotionality inform 
 perceptions of “right” or “wrong” religious practice in evangelica
 lism. Drawing on a case study of a progressive megachurch that uses a ther
 apeutic framework to distance itself from conservative evangelicalism\, I 
 examine the role of emotions in inner-evangelical disagreements and identi
 ty construction.
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Ruhrpott" (4.13)
URL:https://studium.ceres.rub.de/de/veranstaltungen/taking-christianity-to
 -therapy-emotional-identity/
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