Responding to secularization :: the deaconess movement in nineteenth-century Sweden /

The causal link between modernization and secularization constitutes the core of secularization theories, but what these theories often overlook are the ways in which modernity can benefit religion. Focusing on the female diaconates contributions to education, health care, and poor relief in ninetee...

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Main Author: Green, Todd H.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Series:Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 153.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:The causal link between modernization and secularization constitutes the core of secularization theories, but what these theories often overlook are the ways in which modernity can benefit religion. Focusing on the female diaconates contributions to education, health care, and poor relief in nineteenth-century Sweden, this book argues that modernization created new possibilities and opportunities for religious communities to wield public influence. The rise, growth, and social significance of the deaconess movement remain incomprehensible apart from the very modernizing forces that secularizat.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 188 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-184) and index.
ISBN:9789004209671
9004209670
ISSN:1573-5664 ;

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