By examining the complex intersections between belief, embodiment and performativity of religious practice, I illustrate how the distinct patterning of worship space can differently open out, and close down, capacities and affective atmospheres of the divine.
The paper argues that the figure of the ghost is a useful heuristic towards understanding how designers conjure and exploit the emotional and affective power of atmospheres.
Abramson's project traces the historically and technologically inflected convergence of these meteorological, affective, and literary atmospheres, and considers a range of implications for contemporary crises in climate change and climate control.
Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 8, 463 487] and examines whether enjoyment or task self-efficacy mediated the relationship between exercise environment (health- or appearance-oriented class atmosphere) and affective responses/future intentions or had independent associations with those outcomes.
Her provision of a calm, respectful and nurturing atmosphere created affective relations in a culturally constructed event that held rhythmic intention expressed between the three infants and their educator.
However entertaining these and similar lines may be, they produce no affective or semantic ambiguities in the internal atmospheres of readers, nor do they exhibit metamodern works' tendency to oscillate between poles and thereby permit the temporary transcendence of polar spectra.
The finding that the quality of group functioning is a prerequisite for quality of learning is in line with other literature which suggests that an affective learning climate during meetings will only be achieved if the atmosphere is perceived as trustful, safe and secure (Branch 2005; Boud and Walker 1998).
If the partner, mostly the father, has the capacity for affirmative affective contact, in connection with his/her partner and their child, (s)he helps to create an atmosphere of safety, security and trust for the pregnant women.
