Abstract What kind of practices, emotions and self-understandings are linked to conversion? This contribution offers a set of analytical tools which help to understand processes of constructing, performing and maintaining conversionist identity. In doing so, it builds on both, source material related to 17th and 18th century New England and conversion research in the area of sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies. Holistic in its approach, it reconstructs conversionist piety as a social practice that builds up into pious cultures of body, emotion, and meaning-making. The analytical concepts developed on the way may prove to be a starting point for further empirical research on lived religion in Practical Theology and Religious Studies.

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重生的社会实践：关于皈依虔诚的历史和文化社会学视角

摘要 什么样的实践、情感和自我理解与皈依有关？该贡献提供了一组分析工具，有助于理解构建、执行和维护皈依者身份的过程。为此，它建立在与 17 和 18 世纪新英格兰相关的原始材料以及社会学、人类学和文化研究领域的转换研究的基础上。它的方法是整体的，它将皈依者的虔诚重建为一种社会实践，它建立在身体、情感和意义创造的虔诚文化中。在此过程中发展起来的分析概念可能被证明是在实践神学和宗教研究中进一步对活生生的宗教进行实证研究的起点。