Description
Book SynopsisThis book includes studies of main conflict areas in modern Western societies where religion has been a central element, ranging from popular movements and narratives of opposition to challenges of religious satire and anti-clerical critique. Special attention is given to matters of politics and gender. With this theme, it provides a useful guide to conflict areas in modern European religious history.
Table of ContentsInterconnected Conflicts: Religion, History, and Gender
Types of Pilgrimages in Germany between Early and High-Ultramontanism: The Examples of Trier (1844) and Marpingen (1876)
Pain, Passion and Compassion. Writing on Stigmatic Women in Modern Europe
‘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
‘Poland is Catholic, and a Pole is a Catholic.’ The Oppressed Evangelical Masurians after the Second World War
‘Religion’s safe, with Priestcraft is the War’: Satirical Subversion of Clerical Authority in Western Europe 1650−1850
Catholic Celebrities, Religious Commodities and Commotions in the Light of Swedish Anti- Catholicism
Religion and the Rise of Modern Sport
The Religious Memory of Crisis. The Example of Apocalyptic Memory in Nineteenth- Century Art and Fiction
