Sacrifice of Praise: Emotion and Collective Participation in an African-American Worship Service
This paper draws on interviews and participant observation in an AME congregation to document the normative system of emotions and behaviors that make up an “emotional” worship service. First I discuss the system of “feeling rules” which are operative in the service and how individual emotions are e...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
1996
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Sociology of religion
Year: 1996, Volume: 57, Issue: 4, Pages: 379-396 |
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| Summary: | This paper draws on interviews and participant observation in an AME congregation to document the normative system of emotions and behaviors that make up an “emotional” worship service. First I discuss the system of “feeling rules” which are operative in the service and how individual emotions are evoked through liturgical discourse. Next, I show the unique aspects of the “emotional” service, including “shouting,” the encouragement of response behavior, and the diffusion of behavioral expectations throughout the congregation. Finally, I discuss reasons for the continued vitality of “emotional” worship ritual among African Americans and critique traditional explanations of the link between “emotionalism” and social class. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/3711893 |