Tracing the Jerusalem Code : Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750-ca. 1920) / ed. by Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati, Anna Bohlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud, Editor.

Contributor:

Aavitsland, Kristin B., Contributor.

Abou-Hodeib, Toufoul, Contributor.

Amundsen, Arne Bugge, Contributor.

Bergenmar, Jenny, Contributor.

Bohlin, Anna, Contributor.

Bohlin, Anna, Editor.

Bonde, Line M., Contributor.

Bremmer, Magnus, Contributor.

Burmeister, David, Contributor.

Caspi, Dana, Contributor.

Garcia de Presno, Jostein, Contributor.

Gjesvik, Torild, Contributor.

Haanes, Vidar L., Contributor.

Haga, Joar, Contributor.

Hammershøy, Birgitte, Contributor.

Issa, Rana, Contributor.

Jessen, Elisabeth Engell, Contributor.

Johnsrud Zorgati, Ragnhild, Contributor.

Lev, Rachel, Contributor.

Løvlie, Birger, Contributor.

Norseth, Kristin, Contributor.

Oftestad, Eivor Andersen, Contributor.

Okkenhaug, Inger Marie, Contributor.

Petterson, Christina, Contributor.

Sandmo, Erling, Contributor.

Skåden, Kristina, Contributor.

Sparn, Walter, Contributor.

Tandberg, Svein Erik, Contributor.

Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud, Contributor.

Zorgati, Ragnhild Johnsrud, Editor.

Zuber, Devin, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Scandinavia--Church history.

Scandinavia.

Jerusalem--In Christianity.

Jerusalem.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XX, 641 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750-ca. 1920)

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Ragnhild J. Zorgati, Universität Oslo, Norwegen, und Anna Bohlin, Universität Bergen, Norwegen.

Summary:

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image - or rather the imagination - of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Volume 3 analyses the impact of Jerusalem on Scandinavian Christianity from the middle of the 18. century in a broad context. Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumesVolume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100-1536)Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536-ca. 1750)Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750-ca. 1920)

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

List of Maps and Illustrations

Editorial comments for all three volumes

Prelude

Introduction: Jerusalem in Modern Scandinavia

Chapter 1 Tracing the Jerusalem Code c.1750-c.1920: The Christian Storyworld Expanded and Fragmented

Part I: The Promised Land: Awakenings

Chapter 2 Apocalypticism, Chiliasm, and Cultural Progress: Jerusalem in Early Modern Storyworlds

Chapter 3 An Apocalypse of Mind: Cracking the Jerusalem Code in Emanuel Swedenborg's Theosophy

Chapter 4 Citizens in Christ: Moravian Women, Art, and Presence

Chapter 5 New Jerusalem in Greenland: Aspects of Moravian Mission

Chapter 6 Tracing the Jerusalem Code in Christiansfeld: A World Heritage City

Chapter 7 The New Zion in Norway in the 1740s

Chapter 8 "Preparing stones and chalk for Zion": Jerusalem, Hans Nielsen Hauge, and the Community of Friends

Chapter 9 The Prayer House as Promised Land

Chapter 10 In Search of the New Jerusalem: Millennial Hopes and Scandinavian Immigrants to America

Part II: The Promised Land: Renewal of the National Church

Chapter 11 Three Delineations of Jerusalem Interpretations in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia

Chapter 12 The Face of Salvation in Early Nineteenth- Century Danish Altar Painting

Chapter 13 Jerusalem Has Left the Building: The Church Inspection Act of 1861 as a Means to Rebuild Jerusalem in the Danish Parish Churches

Chapter 14 "Jerusalem" as an Expression of What Is Sacred in Music: Restoration Tendencies in Nineteenth-Century Church Music

Part III: The Promised Land: Science and Travel

Chapter 15 Drawing a Map of Jerusalem in the Norwegian Countryside

Chapter 16 Missionary Philology and the Invention of Bibleland

Chapter 17 The Green Line of the Jerusalem Code: Trees, Flowers, Science, and Politics

Chapter 18 Geography of the Soul - History of Humankind: The Jerusalem Code in Bremer and Almqvist

Chapter 19 Paradoxes of Mapping: On Geography and History in the Teaching of Christendom in Norway, c.1850-2000

Chapter 20 A City of Murderers? Norwegians in Jerusalem in the Late 1800s

Chapter 21 "Here - right here - where we stood": Photographic Revelations in P. P. Waldenström's 1896 Pilgrim Travelogue Till Österland

Part IV: The Promised Land: Realisation and Secularisation

Chapter 22 The Fatherland and the Holy Land: Selma Lagerlöf's Jerusalem

Chapter 23 "Where horror abides": Re-Reading Selma Lagerlöf's Jerusalem in Jerusalem

Chapter 24 Photography and Genius Loci: Hol Lars (Lewis) Larsson's "Kaiserin Augusta Victoria Stiftung on Olivet" (1910-1914)

Chapter 25 Hilma Granqvist's Discovery of the Holy Land

Chapter 26 Scandinavian Missionaries in Palestine: The Swedish Jerusalem Society, Welfare, and Education in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, 1900-1948

Chapter 27 God's Kingdom on Earth: Liberal Theology and Christian Liberalism in Sweden

Chapter 28 Weaving the Nation: Sigurd the Crusader and the Norwegian National Tapestries

List of Contributors

Bibliography and References

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9783110636567

3110636565

9783110639476

3110639475

OCLC:

1253312702