Against Affect Sally Cline As a resource for comparative

As a resource for comparative theology

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tightly swaddled in conformities yet fevered in their illusions of romance

he discovers something that horrifies him and turns him in a new direction

Against Affect Sally Cline As a resource for comparativeAgainst Affect interrogates shibboleths of feeling and reason and their relationship with ideas of identity, gender, and freedom in the twenty first century. Lisa Downing starts with the familiar premise that emotion has been historically gendered and racialized since the Enlightenment, with women, people of color, and other nonnormative subjects associated with emotionality, and only white men with logic and reason. The "affective turn" in the