EAN: 9783030921422

PALGRAVE STUDIES IN THE HISTORY OF EXPERIENCE ...

'At a historic moment  when religion shows all its social and political strength in various
post-modern societies around our globe  this fascinating collection of studies from the Middle
Ages to twentieth-century Europe demonstrates all the richness and innovative force of
investigating individual and shared experiences when questioning the cultural  political and
social place of religion in society. It also makes known in English the work of a series of
Finnish historians elaborating together a pioneering vision of the notion of experience in the
discipline of history.'- 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.

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