Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond 1
5. Part 1: Expectations for Women’s Religiosity and Emotions
6. 1: Piety, Obedience, and Contentment: The Cultivation of Appropriate Emotions in Maidservants in the Catholic Publication Notburga in Imperial Germany 19
7. 2: Faithful Beyond Death: Jewish Widows in Imperial Germany 38
8. 3: Maria Meyer-Sevenich and the Politics of Emotions, Gender, and Religion in Postwar Germany 57
9. Part 2: The Pursuit of Meaningful Work
10. 4: “Spiritual Motherliness”: Gender, Emotions, and Religion in the Kindergarten Movement, 1840–1900 85
11. 5: Grief, Grace, and the Calling to Care: Emotional Scripts and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century German Protestant Deaconess Narratives 107
12. 6: Emotions, Gender, and the Power of Piety in Transnational Contexts: The Norwegian Missionary Marie Monsen and Christian Revival in China, 1927–32 125
13. 7: Detachment as an “Emotional Practice” in British Convents, 1950s–1970s 146
14. Part 3: The Search for Meaning in the Private Realm
15. 8: Painful Love: The Suffering of Stigmatics in Early Twentieth- Century Germany and Belgium 167
16. 9: Grieving at the Crossroads of Heaven and Earth: Anna Bauer’s Youthful Diary and Nineteenth-Century Jewish Prayerbooks as Emotional Scripts 182
17. 10: Emotion, Devotion, and the Sacred Heart: Women’s Narratives of Belief and Thanksgiving in the Irish Messenger, 1920s–1950s 199
18. Notes on the Contributors 219
19. Selected Bibliography 223
20. Index 235