ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the emotional experiences of Huguenot refugees through the lens of sermons preached in the French-speaking Walloon churches of the Dutch Republic. Whereas scholars often considered sermons from a theological angle, recent studies have also explored their emotional aspects. Building on this approach, this chapter argues that sermons were crucial in the Huguenot diaspora: ministers relied on preaching to address refugees’ feelings of loss and abandonment, just as they tried to convince wavering Protestants in France to flee by appealing to feelings of shame and repentance. Sermons thus helped to recreate an emotional community of refugees dispersed across Europe.
