Responding to secularization
Subtitle: the deaconess movement in nineteenth-century Sweden
By: by Todd H. Green
Series: Studies in the history of Christian traditions -- v. 153
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789004194793
Subjects: Deaconesses; History; Secularism; Church history
Notes: Based on the author's dissertation (Vanderbilt University).

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The secularization debate : an introduction to the problematic relationship between religion and modernity --; title: The female diaconate in nineteenth-century Sweden --; title: Education --; title: Health care --; title: Poor relief --; title: The social significance of Swedish deaconesses.