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While these are important aspects, I will suggest that the focus on radical beliefs and exterior relations should be supplemented by a broader perspective that places more emphasis on group-internal ideals of devotion and the role of emotionality and narrativity. I argue that these aspects are important for the formation and continued pull of radical religion, for enduring forms of total devotion that enable identity fusion and motivate costly sacrifice. I will present the concept of total devotion and a theoretical framework for addressing and analysing shared ideals of devotion and the role of emotionality and narrativity. The lecture will also discuss a historicization of the study of radical religion that takes it beyond the focus on Islam and on the contemporary era. To that end, I present the <em>Total Devotion project<\/em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sdu.dk\/radrel\">www.sdu.dk\/radrel<\/a>), funded by the Danish Research Fund for Independent Research in the Humanities and discuss some examples drawn from Judaism and Christianity in the ancient world.<\/p>\n<p>Post.doc. of the Total Devotion project and Assistant Professor at VU, Klazina Staat, will present a case study from the project, of total devotion in Latin late antique Lives of secret saints. It argues that total devotion is narrativised according to a standardised plot structure or \u2018masterplot\u2019, with key functions for secrecy, fame, rumours and imitation in the constitution of total devotion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":6873,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-6872","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lecture: &#039;Total Devotion \u2013 Passions and Plots in Radical Religion in the Ancient World&#039; by Laura Feldt - Extreme Beliefs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/extremebeliefs.com\/event\/lecture-total-devotion-passions-and-plots-in-radical-religion-in-the-ancient-world-by-laura-feldt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"nl_NL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lecture: &#039;Total Devotion \u2013 Passions and Plots in Radical Religion in the Ancient World&#039; 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