Cultural studies on folk religion in Scandinavia
By: Anders Gustavsson
Publisher: Novus Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Oslo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9788270996964
Subjects: Christianity; Religion; Folklore
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Folk religion as a field of research; title: The role of religion in everyday Swedish folk life; title: A nineteenth-century peasant and intra-church revival movements in Bohuslän, Sweden; title: The use of the senses in religious revival movements; title: Religious contacts in Swedish-Norwegian border regions; title: The Pentecostal Movement in a local community in western Sweden. The process from a minority to a dominant local culture; title: The Free Friends in a southern Norwegian coastal district, a local revival movement as a minority culture; title: Free-church membership and folk beliefs. Conflict or accommodation?; title: Rumours and breaches of norms in a mission congregation; title: Mortal life and eternity. Conceptions of different generations of a religious movement compared with a labour education movement.