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 Jürgensen 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 Nøtvik 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 Nørgaard 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 Index -- .