Kaznodzieje, nauczyciele, politycy. Ruchy przebudzenia religijnego i modernizacja w regionie nordyckim w XIX wieku
Preachers, Teachers and Politicians. Religious Awakening Movements and Modernization in the Nordic Region in the 19th century

Author(s): Grażyna Szelągowska
Subject(s): History, Modern Age, Recent History (1900 till today), 19th Century, Pre-WW I & WW I (1900 -1919), Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Transformation Period (1990 - 2010)
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Scandinavia; Nordic region; religious awakening; folk Lutheranism; preaching movement; Denmark in the 19th century; Norway in the 19th century; Sweden in the 19th century
Summary/Abstract: The monograph describes folk and mass preaching movement in protestant Scandinavia in the 19th century, which was a protest and secular alternative to the state church and its interpretations of faith. The author focuses on non-religious, social importance of preaching movements, recognizing in them a significant aspect of cultural, political and economic modernization processes in the 19th century Scandinavia, the formation of civic society and national awareness of the peasant class.

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