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Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe


Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe

Hearing, Speaking and Remembering in Calvin's Geneva

von: Anna Kvicalova

90,94 €

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 29.11.2018
ISBN/EAN: 9783030038373
Sprache: englisch

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<p>This book investigates a host of primary sources documenting the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva, exploring the history and epistemology of religious listening at the crossroads of sensory anthropology and religion, knowledge, and media. It reconstructs the social, religious, and material relations at the heart of the Genevan Reformation by examining various facets of the city’s auditory culture which was marked by a gradual fashioning of new techniques of listening, speaking, and remembering. Anna Kvicalova analyzes the performativity of sensory perception in the framework of Calvinist religious epistemology, and approaches hearing and acoustics both as tools through which the Calvinist religious identity was constructed, and as objects of knowledge and rudimentary investigation. The heightened interest in the auditory dimension of communication observed in Geneva is studied against the backdrop of contemporary knowledge about sound and hearing in a wider European context.</p>
<p>1. Introduction.- 2. Reforming Geneva.- 3. Modes of Verbal Utterance in Calvinist Epistemology.- 4. Hearing Difference and Cultural Construction of Deafness.- 5. Practices of Auditory Memory.- 6. Modes of Child Instruction: Between Church, State, and Family.- 7. Listening in the Genevan Temples.- 8. Conclusion.</p>
<p><b>Anna Kvicalova</b> is Research Fellow at the Center for Theoretical Study at Charles University and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic. </p>
<p>This book investigates a host of primary sources documenting the Calvinist Reformation in Geneva, exploring the history and epistemology of religious listening at the crossroads of sensory anthropology and religion, knowledge, and media. It reconstructs the social, religious, and material relations at the heart of the Genevan Reformation by examining various facets of the city’s auditory culture which was marked by a gradual fashioning of new techniques of listening, speaking, and remembering. Anna Kvicalova analyzes the performativity of sensory perception in the framework of Calvinist religious epistemology, and approaches hearing and acoustics both as tools through which the Calvinist religious identity was constructed, and as objects of knowledge and rudimentary investigation. The heightened interest in the auditory dimension of communication observed in Geneva is studied against the backdrop of contemporary knowledge about sound and hearing in a wider European context.<br></p>
<p>Examines the changing epistemology of the senses and how new religious knowledge was created and communicated in the first decades of the Calvinist Reformation</p><p>Explores the prominent role that hearing and auditory memory were assigned in the sixteenth century</p><p>Analyzes how shifts in the understanding of human perception were mirrored by criticisms of religious sensing in the Protestant Reformation</p>

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