Modern histories of religion typically have turned to religious texts, and related textual materials, to build interpretations of emotion in religion. Here we touch on new ways to use intellectual materials of the sort discussed at the outset of the essay. Some research has tracked specific tropes through scriptures, theo- logical writings, prayer books, sermons, and other writings in the interest of clarifying how people conceived of specific emotions and how they understood the relation of a certain emotional state to their spiritual status. Typical in this regard is Charles Lloyd Cohen’s analysis of Puritan piety, which he assesses no