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Responding to secularization : the deaconess movement in nineteenth-century Sweden / by Todd H. Green.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Green, Todd H.
- Series:
- Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 153.
- Studies in the history of Christian traditions, 1573-5664 ; v. 153
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deaconesses--Sweden--History--19th century.
- Deaconesses.
- Secularism--Sweden--History--19th century.
- Secularism.
- History.
- Sweden--Church history--19th century.
- Sweden.
- Church history.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 188 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Based on the author's dissertation (Vanderbilt University).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789004194793
- 9004194797
- OCLC:
- 689002052
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