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Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe

Hearing, Speaking and Remembering in Calvin's Geneva

By (author) Anna Kvicalova
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Cham, Switzerland
Published: 10th Dec 2018
Dimensions: w 148mm h 210mm d 17mm
Weight: 492g
ISBN-10: 303003836X
ISBN-13: 9783030038366
Barcode No: 9783030038366
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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.

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"This is an extremely impressive piece of scholarship that many will want to read. Its findings are important and will likely lead to other work exploring sense perception, hearing, memory, and the like in the Genevan Reformation." (Jon Balserak, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, February 9, 2021)