Cultures in Conflict : Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe C. 1800-2000.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
Cover -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- About the Authors -- Interconnected Conflicts: Religion, History, and Gender -- Catholic - Protestant - Secular: Interconnected Conflicts -- Historiographical Perspectives -- Sources -- Types of Pilgrimages in Germany between Early and High-Ultramontanism: The Examples of Trier (1844) and Marpingen (1876) -- Introduction -- 1. Scholarly debates and context -- 2. A typology of pilgrimages -- 3. Trier 1844 and Marpingen 1876 -- 1) Trier 1844 -- 2) Marpingen 1876 -- Conclusion -- Sources -- Pain, Passion and Compassion. Writing on Stigmatic Women in Modern Europe* -- Interiority, Gender and Stigmata -- Religious Context -- Visiting Modern European Stigmatics -- Reporting on Religious Experience: The Publications -- Pain, Suffering and Compassion -- Stigmatics -- Visitors -- Readers -- Stabat Mater Dolorosa -- Conclusion -- Sources -- '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 -- Now the Gentleman Was Completed -- To a Great Extent Hermaphrodite or Bisexual -- Wimps, Hens, Cowards, and Other Poor Wretches -- Made for Military Life -- Sister and Brother, Father and Mother in One and the Same Person -- Sources -- 'Poland is Catholic, and a Pole is a Catholic.' The Oppressed Evangelical Masurians after the Second World War -- 'Poland is Catholic, and a Pole is a Catholic' -- The General Situation in Masuria after the Second World War -- The Difficult Position of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland after the Second World War in Masuria -- The Swedish Initiative of Rev. Daniel Cederberg (1908−1969) -- Difficulties in Masuria during the Work -- The Spirituality of the Masurian Evangelical Christians -- Sources. 'Religion's safe, with Priestcraft is the War': Satirical Subversion of Clerical Authority in Western Europe 1650−1850 -- Introduction -- I. The Method of Indefiniteness -- II. The Functional Transformation of Anticlerical Satire in the Early Enlightenment -- III. Undermining the Christian Role Allocation between Shepherds and Sheep -- IV. How Anticlerical Satire Contributed to the Process of Enlightenment -- Sources -- Catholic Celebrities, Religious Commodities and Commotions in the Light of Swedish Anti-Catholicism -- Sources -- Religion and the Rise of Modern Sport -- Introduction -- The Debates -- Commentary -- Conclusion -- Sources -- The Religious Memory of Crisis. The Example of Apocalyptic Memory in Nineteenth-Century Art and Fiction -- Religion and Memory -- Mechanisms of Detemporalisation and Mythicisation -- Experience and Memory of Crisis -- Apocalyptic Discourses as Mode of Construction and Interpretation of Crisis -- Apocalyptic Memory in Evangelical Pre-millenarian Prophecy Fiction and Catholic Alternatives -- The Sublime Apocalypse in Art -- The Narrative of the Last Man as (Broken) Apocalypse -- Sources -- Index of Persons -- Series index.
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.