Religious Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries

Reason and orthodoxy in the Nordic countries: an introduction - Johannes Ljungberg and Erik Sidenvall

Part I: Enlightenment in rural societies

1 The rural spectator: clergy as agents of Enlightenment in eighteenth-century Norway - Arne Bugge Amundsen

2 Promoting individualism under the guise of uniformity: a bishop's instructions in late eighteenth-century Sweden - Erik Sidenvall

3 Tuomas Ragvaldinpoika: the Finnish self-taught and disabled man as a writer of ephemeral literature - Tuija Laine

4 Applications of the three-estate doctrine: Swedish local sermons and the social order, 1790-1820 - Joonas Tammela

Part II: Dealing with the Catholic past (and present)

5 In the midst of thick and wretched darkness: enlightened orthodoxy and the heritage of the medieval Church - Terese Zachrisson

6 A problematic legacy: negotiating the medieval past in Danish eighteenth-century church interiors - Martin Wangsgaard Jurgensen

7 Saints and Enlightenment: St Erik of Sweden in eighteenth-century Swedish history-writing - Henrik Ågren

8 A history of its own? The Catholic era as presented in Norwegian history-writing during the eighteenth century - Rolv Notvik Jacobsen

9 Gustav III, Enlightenment and religion: ecumenical visions and Catholicizing strategies - Yvonne Maria Werner

Part III: Milestones of Enlightenment challenged

10 Melancholy diagnostics: on pietist introspection and forensic psychiatry in statu nascendi - Tine Reeh and Ralf Hemmingsen

11 Changing practices of censorship: the Faculty of Theology at the University of Copenhagen, 1738-70 - Jesper Jakobsen and Lars Cyril Norgaard

12 Sabbath crimes in a city of Enlightenment: religious and commercial (dis)order in eighteenth-century Altona - Johannes Ljungberg

13 A commercial alliance between agents of Enlightenment: Struensee's statecraft and the Moravian Brethren - Christina Petterson

14 New medical knowledge in the parish: mass vaccinations in rural Finland, 1802-18 - Esko M. Laine

Epilogue: the piety of Enlightenment - much more than rationalism - Anders Jarlert

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