Praying Together, Hating Together—Transforming Hostility through the Effective Direction of Religious Communitarization

Perceived belonging to a community is one of the most frequently given reasons for regularity religious practice. However, it also plays key role in practice violence. The paper addresses relationship between felt belonging, which established shared experiences, and different expressions hostility. By means phenomenological analysis based on work Bernhard Waldenfels, author distinguishes modes self-localization. On hand, performative moments practices are reconstructed, unfolding their effect even regular less intensive experiences. other intrinsically nature assemblies becomes describable, includes co-actors process self-constitution. Due existential this self-constitution, violent affects appear be group-directed, particularly encourages self-sacrificial behavior that seems distinguish This methodological focus communitarization keeps study interoperable with variety meaning-based theories, promoting phenomenology as resourceful method philosophical division labor.