Forgotten roots of the Nordic welfare state in Protestant cultures / edited by Thomas Mohnike and Søren Blak Hjortshøj.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mohnike, Thomas, editor, contributor.

Hjortshøj, Søren Blak, editor, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state--Scandinavia.

Welfare state.

Scandinavia--Church history.

Scandinavia.

Public welfare--Scandinavia.

Public welfare.

Nordic model.

Scandinavia--Social policy.

Scandinavia--Church history--17th century.

Scandinavia--Church history--18th century.

Physical Description:

263 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols Publishers n.v., [2025]

Summary:

"The present volume explores the often forgotten roots in Protestant milieus in several case studies from the seventeenth century until today, focusing on the function of aesthetics in the creation of the welfare state model." -- Publisher's website

Contents:

Forgotten roots of the Nordic welfare state in Protestant cultures / Søren Blak Hjortshøj, Thomas Mohnike

The Nordic welfare state, the pastoral enlightenment, and Franz Julius L|tkens (1650-1712), court preacher to King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway / Douglas H. Shantz

Dimensions of Trust. Lutheran pastors on the eve of the Scandinavian welfare state : The case of Norway, 1537-1814 / Arne Bugge Amundsen

The role of hymns in teh Norwegian church, culture, and society / VIgdis Berland Øystese

Bucolics, public welfare and agricultural progress. Models of an ideal economic past in eighteenth-century Sweden / Bernd Roling

'I to kan utrette store ting sammen.' The narrative reintegration of Protestant thought into Norwegian labor movement discourse in two novels by Johan Falkberget / Karl Clemens K|bler

The price of giving: charity, welfare, and Lutheran alienation in Swedish social and devotional fiction at the turn of the twentieth century. Some examples / Beata Agrell

The protestant pastor and the anti-authoritarian rural protest culture in Henrik Pontoppidan's Det Forjættede Land. Hopes and fears of the modern democratic civil sphere / Søren Blak Hjortshøj

Work and salvation. Selma Lagerl̲f and Protestant ethics of welfare / Thomas Mohnike

Son of a preacher man. Complexity and ambivalence in Henrick Pontoppidan's views on the Danish church and its pastors / Nils Gunder Hansen

A communion of Swedes? On Protestantism in Vilhelm Moberg's Emigrants series (1949-1959) / Frederike Felcht

From common prayer to Morgonsamling. Proestant mystique in welfare state schooling? / Piero Simeone Colla

Secrecy, conspiracy, enchantment: the conditions of (dis)belief in 1980s Sweden / Pehr Engľn

The fantastic in the Nordic welfare state. Secularization and rationalization in Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist / Maria Hansson

A Nordic paradox. Religion in politics / Fřďrique Harry.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

2503612636

9782503612638

OCLC:

1468972282