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9783631847312.Pdf Cultures in Conflict To Yvonne Maria Werner − with gratitude Johannes Ljungberg / Alexander Maurits / Erik Sidenvall (eds.) Cultures in Conflict Religion, History and Gender in Northern Europe c. 1800–2000 Bibliographic Information published by the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available online at Library of Congresshttp://dnb.d-nb.de. Cataloging-in-Publication Data A CIP catalog record for this book has been applied for at the Library of Congress. Cover illustration: © Blue Planet Studio / Shutterstock ISBN 978-3-631-82986-8 (Print) E-ISBN 978-3-631-84731-2 (E-PDF) E-ISBN 978-3-631-84732-9 (EPUB) E-ISBN 978-3-631-84733-6 (MOBI) DOI 10.3726/b18041 Open Access: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 license. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ©Johannes Ljungberg / Alexander Maurits / Erik Sidenvall, 2021. Peter Lang – Berlin ∙ Bern ∙ Bruxelles ∙ New York ∙ Oxford ∙ Warszawa ∙ Wien This publication has been peer reviewed. www.peterlang.com To Yvonne Maria Werner − with gratitude Contents Foreword ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 9 About the Authors ��������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 11 Johannes Ljungberg, Alexander Maurits & Erik Sidenvall Interconnected Conflicts: Religion, History, and Gender ��������������������������������� 15 Olaf Blaschke Types of Pilgrimages in Germany between Early and High- Ultramontanism: The Examples of Trier (1844) and Marpingen (1876) ��������� 27 Tine Van Osselaer Pain, Passion and Compassion� Writing on Stigmatic Women in Modern Europe ������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������ 59 Inger Littberger Caisou- Rousseau ‘If I Am Not Allowed to Wear Trousers I Cannot Live�’ Therese Andreas Bruce and the Struggle for a Male Identity in Nineteenth- Century Sweden � 85 Anders Jarlert ‘Poland is Catholic, and a Pole is a Catholic�’ The Oppressed Evangelical Masurians after the Second World War ������������������������������������������������������������� 101 Dennis Meyhoff Brink ‘Religion’s safe, with Priestcraft is the War’: Satirical Subversion of Clerical Authority in Western Europe 1650−1850 �������������������������������������������� 119 Alexander Maurits Catholic Celebrities, Religious Commodities and Commotions in the Light of Swedish Anti- Catholicism ��������������������������������������������������������������������� 147 8 Contents Hugh McLeod Religion and the Rise of Modern Sport �������������������������������������������������������������� 165 Franziska Metzger The Religious Memory of Crisis� The Example of Apocalyptic Memory in Nineteenth- Century Art and Fiction ����������������������������������������������������������������� 191 Index of Persons ����������������������������������������������������������������������������������������������� 217 Foreword The aim of this volume is to offer an overview of the main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion is a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anticlerical critique� Special attention is paid to political struggles and gender troubles� With this theme, we want to provide an applicable and elaborate compilation on religious conflict areas in modern European religious history� We are grateful that a number of esteemed colleagues and friends from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Sweden have agreed to contribute to this volume� This has enabled us to draw together a volume characterised by exceptional research and the thorough knowledge of its contributors� The chapters in this volume analyse historical conflicts and conflicts within the field of historiography from various perspectives� Particular emphasis is placed on the impact of religious conflicts on various political struggles and vice versa� Themes covered include anti- Catholicism, gender, popular piety and memory� Chronologically, the chapters cover the period from c� 1650 until the present day� Dealing with different periods and different geographical locations within Northern Europe, this volume reaches over a variety of confessional contexts, thus reflecting the religious plurality in Western Europe� In addition to the contributing authors, we are indebted to the editorial team at Peter Lang for all their efforts, especially Commissioning Editor Ute Winkelkötter� Finally, we would like to express our deepest gratitude to the Gunvor and Josef Anér Foundation, the Hilda and Håkan Theodor Ohlsson Foundation, the Pleijel Fund, and the Lund University Book Fund for finan- cially supporting the publication of this book� Johannes Ljungberg, Alexander Maurits & Erik Sidenvall Copenhagen, Lund & Växjö April 2021 About the Authors OLAF BLASCHKE is professor of history at Westfälische Wilhelms- Universität Münster� He has published several works on Catholicism in Modern Germany, launching a contested theory on the long nineteenth century (1830– 1960) as a ‘second confessional age’� Most seminal is his dissertation on Catholicism and anti- Semitism (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1997)� Recently he has pub- lished Die Kirchen und der Nationalsozialismus (Reclam 2014, 2� edition: bpb, Bonn 2019) and together with Francisco Javier Ramón Solans Weltreligion im Umbruch: Transnationale Perspektiven auf das Christentum in der Globalisierung (Campus 2019)� ANDERS JARLERT is senior professor of church history at Lund University and director of the Archives of Ecclesiastical History at Lund University� He has pub- lished numerous books and articles on early modern and modern church his- tory, among them Piety and Modernity: The Dynamics of Religious Reform in Northern Europe, 1780– 1920 (Leuven University Press, 2012)� He is the editor of Kyrkohistorisk årsskrift [Swedish Yearbook of Church History], a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, and the president of the Commission Internationale d’Histoire et d’Études du Christianisme (CIHEC)� INGER LITTBERGER CAISOU- ROUSSEAU is a reader in literary history� Her publications include Ulla Isakssons romankonst [The Fiction of Ulla Isaksson] (1996), Omvändelser: Nedslag i svenska romaner under hundra år [Conversions: One Hundred Years of Swedish Novels] (2004) and Över alla gränser: Manlighet och kristen (o)tro hos Almqvist, Strindberg och Lagerlöf [Breaching the Boundaries: Masculinity and Christian (Un-)belief in Almqvist, Strindberg and Lagerlöf] (2012)� JOHANNES LJUNGBERG is a postdoc in history at the Centre for Privacy Studies at the University of Copenhagen� He received his doctorate at Lund University with his dissertation Toleransens gränser: Religionspolitiska dilemman i det tidiga 1700- talets Sverige och Europa [The Limits of Toleration: Swedish Pietist conflicts in a European perspective c� 1700– 1730]� For his postdoctoral research, Ljungberg is funded by the Danish National Research Foundation within a major research program exploring notions of privacy and the private in eleven cities of early modern Europe� Ljungberg is a part of the interdisciplinary case teams working with Helmstedt and Altona� 12 About the Authors ALEXANDER MAURITS is a senior lecturer in church history at Lund University� In his research, Maurits has primarily dealt with the role of the churches in Western and Northern Europe, especially the Church of Sweden, modernity and gender� He is one of the editors of Kyrkan och idrotten under 2000 år: Antika, medeltida och moderna attityder till idrott [Church and Sports over 2000 years: Antique, Medieval, and Modern Approaches to Sport] (Universus Academic Press 2015) and Classics in Northern European Church History over 500 Years (Peter Lang Verlag 2017)� HUGH MCLEOD is a professor emeritus of church history at the University of Birmingham and the former president of Commission Internationale d’Histoire et d’Études du Christianisme (CHIEC)� In 2003, he received an hon- orary doctorate at Lund University� His research mainly investigates the social history of religion in Western Europe, not least the topic of secularisation� Among his publications are The Religious Crisis of the 1960s (Oxford University Press 2007)� He was editor of World Christianities c. 1914– c. 2000 (Cambridge University Press 2006)� FRANZISKA METZGER is professor of history at the University of Teacher Education Lucerne, and since 2011 chief editor of Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Religions- und Kulturgeschichte� She has published extensively on memory culture in relation to politics, religion and culture in the nineteenth cen- tury� Her publications include Religion, Geschichte, Nation: Katolische Geschichtsschreibung in der Schweiz im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert (Kohlhammer 2010), as well as the co- edited volumes Ausdehnung der Zeit: Die Gestaltung von Erinnerungsräumen in Geschichte, Literatur und Kunst, ed� with Dimiter Daphinoff (Böhlau Verlag 2019) andSacred Heart Devotion: Memory, Body, Image, Text - Continuities and Discontinuities, ed� with Stefan Tertünte (Böhlau Verlag 2021)� DENNIS MEYHOFF BRINK is an adjunct professor at the Danish Institute for Study Abroad (DIS) in Copenhagen� In his research, Brink investigates the themes, tropes and devices of religious satire in modern Europe� Among his publications
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