Responding to Secularization: The Deaconess Movement in Nineteenth-Century Sweden

by Todd H. Green, Vincent Chetail (Editor), Peter Haggenmacher (Editor)

Focusing on the female diaconates contributions to education, health care, and poor relief in nineteenth-century Sweden, this book challenges long-standing secularization theories by arguing that modernization created new possibilities and opportunities for religious communities to wield public influence.

200 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2011