Overview
- This book is available Open Access which means you can read it for free
- Offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience
- Applies “experience” to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared their religion
- Concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience (PSHE)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
- Piroska Nagy, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared theirreligion through experience in history. This book understands experience as a simultaneously socially constructed and intimately personal process that connects individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming structures that create and direct societies. It represents the crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters offer a longue durée view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor of History at Tampere University, Finland and leader of the 'Lived Religion' group at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences. She has published widely on the social history early modern religion, gender and domestic violence.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
Editors: Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Raisa Maria Toivo
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Experience
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92140-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92139-2Published: 18 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92142-2Published: 18 March 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92140-8Published: 17 March 2022
Series ISSN: 2524-8960
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8979
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 305
Number of Illustrations: 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: European History, Social History, Historiography and Method, History of Religion