Keywords
religion, revivalism, secularization, social culture
Abstract
The subject of this dissertation is religious revivalism in Danish and Swedish agrarian society in the first half of the nineteenth century. Its purpose has been to analyse a specific religious phenomenon in a presecularized society. As other historians have done, I have analysed revivalism from a social and a political point of view. Furthermore, I have focused on the religious dimension of the movement not as a theological, but as a cultural and social problem. My main thesis is that during the secularization of society the meaning of religion changed from knowledge and social culture it came to mean an individual and existential belief.
Recommended Citation
Sanders, Hanne
(1999)
"Peasant Revivalism and Secularization: Protestant Popular Culture in Denmark and Sweden 1820-1850,"
The Bridge: Vol. 22:
No.
1, Article 7.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/thebridge/vol22/iss1/7
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