Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion.

• Superior document: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience Series
• Author: Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari.
• TeilnehmendeR: Toivo, Raisa Maria.
• Place / Publishing House: Cham : : Springer International Publishing AG,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (314 pages)

Table of Contents

• Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Charts
• Notes on Contributors
• Chapter 1: Introduction: Religion as Historical Experience
• Lived Religion vis-à-vis Experience
• Three Levels of Experience
• Cultural Scripts: Models for Experience
• Communities of Experience
• Embodiment and Materiality of Experience
• Agentic Individuals
• Sources and Context
• Structure of the Volume
• Bibliography
• Chapter 2: From Lived Reality to a Cultural Script: Punishment Miracles as an Experience
• From a Blasphemer to a Devotee: Conversion as a Cultural Script
• The Canonization Process of Saint Birgitta
• A Devil Who Fell on Slippery Ice
• Bit(e)s and Pieces
• Forming a Script: Vadstena Brothers' Rhetoric in Constructing Sanctity and Sin
• Conclusions: The Relationship Between "Lived Reality," Cultural Script, and Experience as an Analytical Concept
• Bibliography
• Unprinted sources
• Printed Sources
• Online Database
• Literature
• Chapter 3: A Taste of Dissent: Experiences of Heretical Blessed Bread as a Dimension of Lived Religion in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century Languedoc
• Introduction
• Eating Bread Blessed by the Good Men
• The Ritual of Blessing Bread
• Distributing Blessed Bread in the Languedocian Communities
• Interpretations and Beliefs Concerning the Value of Blessed Bread
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Sources
• Archival Sources
• Printed Sources
• Literature
• Chapter 4: The Religious Experience of Ill Health in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy
• Introduction
• Acquiring the Infirmity
• Pain, Medicine, and Healing
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Manuscripts
• Printed Sources
• Literature
• Chapter 5: Prayer and the Body in Lay Religious Experience in Early Modern Finland
• Prayer, Experience, and Materiality.
• Prayer as a Material, Everyday Experience
• The Medium for the Personalization Process of Experience
• The Medium for Sharing and Structuralizing Experience
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Archival Material
• Printed Primary Sources
• Secondary Sources
• Chapter 6: Extended Families as Communities of Religious Experience in Late Seventeenth-Century Eastern Finland
• Introduction
• Witchcraft Accusations in a Divided Family
• The St George's Day Feast "at Helga's"
• The Meaning of Religious Expertise: From a Threat to an Asset of the Community?
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Chapter 7: Constructing "Mad" Religious Experiences in Early Modern Sweden
• Formation of "Religious" Experiences
• Power Dynamics and Actors in Negotiating Religious Experiences
• Mad or "Fanatic"? Pathologizing and Medicalizing Religious Experiences
• Conclusion
• Sources and Literature
• Chapter 8: The Trials of Sarah Wheeler (1807-1867): Experiencing Submission
• Sarah and Margaret as Pen Friends
• "Family as a scattered band"
• "…every stroke is given by Father's hand": Sarah and the Sad Shoosharry
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Manuscript Collections
• Bibliography
• Chapter 9: Working-Class Women Living Religion in Finland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• Introduction
• The Scenes of Religious Experience
• Deaconesses in the Religious Landscape
• "Dissenters" in the Religious Landscape
• "Immature" Women and Mistaken Faith
• Faith in Families
• Believer's Protest
• Concluding Remarks
• Bibliography
• Archival Sources
• Newspapers and Periodicals
• Literature
• Chapter 10: To the Undiscovered Country: Facing Death in Early Twentieth-Century Finnish Poorhouses
• Religion, the Poorhouse, and Modernization
• Death Far Away from Home
• Rodents in the Mortuary
• Conclusions
• Bibliography
• Archival Sources
• Bibliography.
• Chapter 11: Artisans of Religion at the Moral Frontiers: Finnish Soldiers' Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Attitudes in World War II
• Introduction
• Historical Context, Research Question, and Sources
• Manifestations of Frontline Fatalism
• Protective Identities on the Moral Frontiers
• Lutheran Soldiers
• Conclusions: Religious Experiences in the Frontline Community
• Bibliography
• Archival Sources
• Published Sources
• Research Literature
• Correction to: Working-Class Women Living Religion in Finland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
• Correction to:
• Index.