ABSTRACT

This article proposes ways how to access emotions in Islamic preaching. Conceptually, it brings together the often-juxtaposed spheres of body and mind; nature and culture; aesthetics and religion. Based on extensive research on Islamic sermons in Bangladesh between 2012 and 2015, it stresses the form of public speech as the means to access the emotional potentials of oratory. It argues that a focus on emotions allows us to gain a deeper understanding of Islam as an aesthetic and political formation while at the same time emphasizing processes over static ideas of identity and complicating ideas of political participation. Sermons offer listeners emotionalized roles that are not reducible to state or party narratives and reorient the relationship to nationalism as much as other parts of subjectivities, such as masculinity, sense of justice, or imaginations of the future. The article shows how these debates can be linked to emotions engrained in the vocal qualities of Islamic preaching. To make this argument, it intervenes in debates about the concepts of emotions and affects. It furthermore stresses the role of humour in making emotional potentials transcend a private or literary sphere rather than, as has been done in previous literature, a merely relaxing aspect of oratory. From this perspective, Islamic preaching gatherings evolve as communicative practices that crucially shape configurations of community, extends of the political, and gendered subjectivities.

摘要

本文提出了在伊斯兰布道中如何获取情感的方法。从概念上讲，它汇集了经常并列的身体和心灵领域；自然与文化；美学和宗教信仰。基于对2012年至2015年间孟加拉国伊斯兰布道的广泛研究，该报告强调了公开演讲的形式，以此作为获取演讲的情感潜能的手段。它认为，对情感的关注使我们对伊斯兰作为一种美学和政治形态有更深入的了解，同时又强调了静态身份概念的过程，并使政治参与的思想复杂化。讲道为听众提供了激动人心的角色，这些角色无法还原为国家或政党的叙事，并且与主观性的其他部分（如男性气概，正义感，或对未来的想象。文章说明了这些辩论如何与伊斯兰传教的声音品质所根深蒂固的情感联系在一起。为了提出这一论点，它介入了关于情感和情感概念的辩论。此外，它强调了幽默在使情感潜能超越私人或文学领域方面的作用，而不是像以前的文献中所做的那样，仅仅是口头上令人放松的方面。从这个角度来看，伊斯兰讲道聚会是作为交流活动而发展的，这些活动至关重要地塑造着社区的形态，政治的延伸以及性别主体。它介入有关情感和情感概念的辩论。此外，它强调了幽默在使情感潜能超越私人或文学领域方面的作用，而不是像以前的文献中所做的那样，仅仅是口头上令人放松的方面。从这个角度来看，伊斯兰讲道聚会是作为交流活动而发展的，这些活动至关重要地塑造着社区的形态，政治的延伸以及性别主体。它介入有关情感和情感概念的辩论。此外，它强调了幽默在使情感潜能超越私人或文学领域方面的作用，而不是像以前的文献中所做的那样，仅仅是口头上令人放松的方面。从这个角度来看，伊斯兰讲道聚会是作为交流活动而发展的，这些活动至关重要地塑造着社区的形态，政治的延伸以及性别主体。