Cultures in Conflict; Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe c. 1800-2000

ISBN-13: 9783631829868 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 220 str.

Johannes Ljungberg;Alexander Maurits;Erik Sidenvall

Opis

This book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender. With this theme, it provides a useful guide to conflict areas in modern European religious history.

Spis treści

Interconnected Conflicts: Religion, History, and Gender

Types of Pilgrimages in Germany between Early and High-Ultramontanism: The Examples of Trier (1844) and Marpingen (1876)

Pain, Passion and Compassion. Writing on Stigmatic Women in Modern Europe

'If I Am Not Allowed to Wear Trousers I Cannot Live.' Therese Andreas Bruce and the Struggle for a Male Identity in Nineteenth- Century Sweden

'Poland is Catholic, and a Pole is a Catholic.' The Oppressed Evangelical Masurians after the Second World War

'Religion's safe, with Priestcraft is the War': Satirical Subversion of Clerical Authority in Western Europe 1650-1850

Catholic Celebrities, Religious Commodities and Commotions in the Light of Swedish Anti- Catholicism

Religion and the Rise of Modern Sport

The Religious Memory of Crisis. The Example of Apocalyptic Memory in Nineteenth- Century Art and Fiction

O autorze

Johannes Ljungberg is a Postdoctoral Fellow in History at the University of Copenhagen.Alexander Maurits is a Senior Lecturer in Church History at Lund University.Erik Sidenvall is Adjunct Professor of Church History at Lund University.