A Wholesome Cure for the Wounded Soul: Confession, Emotions, and Self in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Catholicism

This article explores how Catholic practices of auricular confession related to emotions and self in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, focusing on the situation in Belgium as a revealing case study. Relying on both prescriptive sources and depositions in criminal case records, it is arg...

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Main Author: Hofman, Elwin 1990- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2018]
In: Journal of religious history
Year: 2018, Volume: 42, Issue: 2, Pages: 222-241
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Catholicism / Individual confession / Soul / Emotion / Self-esteem / History 1700-1900
RelBib Classification:KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history
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