Cringing at Benevolence
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Abstract Engaging with Logan’s third chapter, on the American Seamen’s Friends Society, this piece reflects what it means to cringe in context of a benevolent or charitable relationship. People when they are made painfully aware gap between their self-conception (and/or ideal self) and way others perceive them. Logan shows us, her study ASFS , cringeworthy nature antebellum societies: learned about objects benevolence (in case, sailors), performed rituals alongside them, attempted befriend yet did not ultimately want be them like but, rather, change
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Method & Theory in The Study of Religion
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['0943-3058', '1570-0682']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1163/15700682-bja10110