Responding to secularization : the deaconess movement in nineteenth-century Sweden / / by Todd H. Green.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of Christian traditions, v. 153
• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Green, Todd H.
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 153.
• Physical Description: viii, 188 p.
• Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (Vanderbilt University).

Table of Contents

• The secularization debate : an introduction to the problematic relationship between religion and modernity
• The female diaconate in nineteenth-century Sweden
• Education
• Health care
• Poor relief
• The social significance of Swedish deaconesses.