Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism: Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment

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Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism : Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment. / Engelhardt, Juliane.

In: Eighteenth Century Studies, Vol. 52, No. 2, 01.2019, p. 245-261.

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Engelhardt, J 2019, 'Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism: Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment', Eighteenth Century Studies, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 245-261.

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Engelhardt, J. (2019). Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism: Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment. Eighteenth Century Studies, 52(2), 245-261.

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Engelhardt J. Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism: Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment. Eighteenth Century Studies. 2019 Jan;52(2):245-261.

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Engelhardt, Juliane. / Anxiety, Affect, and the Performance of Feelings in Radical Pietism : Towards a Topography of Religious Feelings in Denmark-Norway in the Early Enlightenment. In: Eighteenth Century Studies. 2019 ; Vol. 52, No. 2. pp. 245-261.

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