Contents

pp v-vi

Preface

pp vii-viii

Introduction: Women, Religion, and Emotions in Modern Germany and Beyond

pp 1-16

Part 1: - Expectations for Women’s Religiosity and Emotions

pp 17-18

1 - Piety, Obedience, and Contentment: The Cultivation of Appropriate Emotions in Maidservants in the Catholic Publication Notburga in Imperial Germany

pp 19-37

2 - Faithful Beyond Death: Jewish Widows in Imperial Germany

pp 38-56

3 - Maria Meyer-Sevenich and the Politics of Emotions, Gender, and Religion in Postwar Germany

pp 57-82

Part 2: - The Pursuit of Meaningful Work

pp 83-84

4 - “Spiritual Motherliness”: Gender, Emotions, and Religion in the Kindergarten Movement, 1840–1900

pp 85-106

5 - Grief, Grace, and the Calling to Care: Emotional Scripts and Subjectivity in Nineteenth-Century German Protestant Deaconess Narratives

pp 107-124

6 - Emotions, Gender, and the Power of Piety in Transnational Contexts: The Norwegian Missionary Marie Monsen and Christian Revival in China, 1927–32

pp 125-145

7 - Detachment as an “Emotional Practice” in British Convents, 1950s–1970s

pp 146-164

Part 3: - The Search for Meaning in the Private Realm

pp 165-166

8 - Painful Love: The Suffering of Stigmatics in Early Twentieth-Century Germany and Belgium

pp 167-181

9 - Grieving at the Crossroads of Heaven and Earth: Anna Bauer’s Youthful Diary and Nineteenth-Century Jewish Prayerbooks as Emotional Scripts

pp 182-198

10 - Emotion, Devotion, and the Sacred Heart: Women’s Narratives of Belief and Thanksgiving in the Irish Messenger, 1920s–1950s

pp 199-218

Notes on the Contributors

pp 219-222

Selected Bibliography

pp 223-234

Index

pp 235-252