Theorizing Thinking, Feeling, Belief

This session will offer perspectives, case studies, and object lessons on the relationships between cognition, emotion/sensation/feeling, and what we call "belief." It will do so at the intersection of theories of affect that have thickened and re-examined the relationship between thinking and feeling (starting particularly with Massumi's Parables for the Virtual and Sedgwick's Touching Feeling), and religious studies, with special focus on Donovan Schaefer's 2022 book Wild Experiment: Feeling Science and Secularism after Darwin.