Tracing the Jerusalem Code : Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920) - Hardcover

Zorgati; Ragnhild Johnsrud; Bohlin; Anna

 
9783110634884: Tracing the Jerusalem Code : Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 3110634880 ISBN 13: 9783110634884
Publisher: De Gruyter, 2021

Synopsis

With the aim to write the history of Christianity in Scandinavia with Jerusalem as a lens, this book investigates the image – or rather the imagination – of Jerusalem in the religious, political, and artistic cultures of Scandinavia through most of the second millennium. Volume 3 analyses the impact of Jerusalem on Scandinavian Christianity from the middle of the 18. century in a broad context.

Tracing the Jerusalem Code in three volumes
Volume 1: The Holy City Christian Cultures in Medieval Scandinavia (ca. 1100–1536)
Volume 2: The Chosen People Christian Cultures in Early Modern Scandinavia (1536–ca. 1750)
Volume 3: The Promised Land Christian Cultures in Modern Scandinavia (ca. 1750–ca. 1920)

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About the Authors

Ragnhild J. Zorgati, University of Oslo, Norway, and Anna Bohlin, University of Bergen, Norway.



Ragnhild J. Zorgati, Universität Oslo, Norwegen, und Anna Bohlin, Universität Bergen, Norwegen.

From the Back Cover

This volume delves into the period between c.1750 and c.1920, exploring how the Jerusalem code informed Scandinavian Christianity in a rapidly changing, increasingly globalized, and eventually, secularized world. Part 1 focuses on how millenarian ideas gave rise to new notions of Jerusalem, and influenced pietistic and separatist groups. Part 2 examines the different applications of Jerusalem within milieus closer to the national churches. Part 3 focuses on how the physical encounter with Jerusalem and the Holy Land created new knowledge, which both challenged and confirmed imaginaries stemming from readings of the Bible. Part 4 follows the trajectory of the Jerusalem code into the twentieth century, suggesting that despite processes of fragmentation and secularization, ideas of the Promised land or the New Jerusalem were channeled in new forms into the Scandinavian welfare states.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3110634880
ISBN 13 
9783110634884
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
641