«Klikushestvo»: emotions and authorities (on Urals of 19th - early 20th centuries materials)

The author makes an attempt to illustrate the inclusion of the emotional sphere into social communicative practices basing on the analysis of the phenomenon «klikushestvo». According to the data of psychiatrists, the state of a women in time of affect could not be regarded as an emotional act not controlled culturally and socially. An analysis of emotions (affects) in religious practice makes possible the attitude to an affect as an act within the frameworks of social interaction which demands considerable participation of a body and it makes the gestures of the body and emotions power acts

gender, power, emotions, demons possessed, women, the Urals