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Emotions in Scottish Protestant Public Worship, 1560-1638

  • Nathan C. J. Hood
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2025
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Studies the emotional culture of corporate religious rituals in post-Reformation Scotland

  • Analyses the role of emotion in early modern Scottish Protestant public worship
  • Applies methods and insights from the history of emotions discipline
  • Establishes that religious conversion was at the heart of congregational worship
  • Discusses the medieval, secular and transnational influences on Scottish Protestantism
  • Highlights how debates over emotion influenced the politics of seventeenth century Scotland
This book explores the affective dimension of Scottish Protestant public worship in early modern Scotland. It examines how the intensely emotional character of Scottish Puritan or godly piety was reflective of the emotional norms many Scots had to navigate in congregational worship following the Protestant Reformation. Using historiographical approaches developed within the history of emotions discipline, the book argues that in corporate rituals such as prayer, preaching, public repentance, fasting and the Lord's Supper, Scottish Protestants were expected to experience and express a variety of feelings that were associated with the cycle of conversion. These prescribed emotions were seen as integral to the efficacy of the liturgy, playing a vital role in the individual's, community's and nation's encounter with God. The book argues that these standards of emotion were informed by medieval, secular and protestant sources and new perspectives emerge on their profound impact upon the major political events that shaped seventeenth century Scotland.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents

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    Acknowledgements

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    Introduction: Scottish Protestant Worship and the History of Emotions

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    chapter one Defining the Passions and Affections

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    chapter two Public Prayer as ‘Talking with God’

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    chapter three Preaching: The Instrument of Conversion

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    chapter four Public Repentance as a Performance of Conversion

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    chapter five Ecstasy in the Lord’s Supper

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    chapter six Emotional Directions in the Service Book and the National Covenant

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    Conclusion: The Centrality of Emotion in the Rituals of the Kirk

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    Bibliography

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    Index

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October 31, 2025
eBook ISBN:
9781399507417
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296
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781399507417
eBook ISBN: 9781399507417
Keywords for this book
Scotland; Emotion; Worship; Liturgy; Conversion; Protestant; Scottish Protestantism; History of Emotion; Liturgical Theology; Public Worship; Religious Experience; mysticism; early modern Scotland
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