Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Charts -- Notes on Contributors -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Religion as Historical Experience -- Lived Religion vis-�a-vis Experience -- Three Levels of Experience -- Cultural Scripts: Models for Experience -- Communities of Experience -- Embodiment and Materiality of Experience -- Agentic Individuals -- Sources and Context -- Structure of the Volume -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: From Lived Reality to a Cultural Script: Punishment Miracles as an Experience -- From a Blasphemer to a Devotee: Conversion as a Cultural Script -- The Canonization Process of Saint Birgitta -- A Devil Who Fell on Slippery Ice -- Bit(e)s and Pieces -- Forming a Script: Vadstena Brothers' Rhetoric in Constructing Sanctity and Sin -- Conclusions: The Relationship Between "Lived Reality," Cultural Script, and Experience as an Analytical Concept -- Bibliography -- Unprinted sources -- Printed Sources -- Online Database -- Literature -- Chapter 3: A Taste of Dissent: Experiences of Heretical Blessed Bread as a Dimension of Lived Religion in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century Languedoc -- Introduction -- Eating Bread Blessed by the Good Men -- The Ritual of Blessing Bread -- Distributing Blessed Bread in the Languedocian Communities -- Interpretations and Beliefs Concerning the Value of Blessed Bread -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Archival Sources -- Printed Sources -- Literature -- Chapter 4: The Religious Experience of Ill Health in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy -- Introduction -- Acquiring the Infirmity -- Pain, Medicine, and Healing -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Printed Sources -- Literature -- Chapter 5: Prayer and the Body in Lay Religious Experience in Early Modern Finland -- Prayer, Experience, and Materiality.

Prayer as a Material, Everyday Experience -- The Medium for the Personalization Process of Experience -- The Medium for Sharing and Structuralizing Experience -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Archival Material -- Printed Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 6: Extended Families as Communities of Religious Experience in Late Seventeenth-Century Eastern Finland -- Introduction -- Witchcraft Accusations in a Divided Family -- The St George's Day Feast "at Helga's" -- The Meaning of Religious Expertise: From a Threat to an Asset of the Community? -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Constructing "Mad" Religious Experiences in Early Modern Sweden -- Formation of "Religious" Experiences -- Power Dynamics and Actors in Negotiating Religious Experiences -- Mad or "Fanatic"? Pathologizing and Medicalizing Religious Experiences -- Conclusion -- Sources and Literature -- Chapter 8: The Trials of Sarah Wheeler (1807-1867): Experiencing Submission -- Sarah and Margaret as Pen Friends -- "Family as a scattered band" -- "…every stroke is given by Father's hand": Sarah and the Sad Shoosharry -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Collections -- Bibliography -- Chapter 9: Working-Class Women Living Religion in Finland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Introduction -- The Scenes of Religious Experience -- Deaconesses in the Religious Landscape -- "Dissenters" in the Religious Landscape -- "Immature" Women and Mistaken Faith -- Faith in Families -- Believer's Protest -- Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Newspapers and Periodicals -- Literature -- Chapter 10: To the Undiscovered Country: Facing Death in Early Twentieth-Century Finnish Poorhouses -- Religion, the Poorhouse, and Modernization -- Death Far Away from Home -- Rodents in the Mortuary -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Bibliography.

Chapter 11: Artisans of Religion at the Moral Frontiers: Finnish Soldiers' Religious Practices, Beliefs, and Attitudes in World War II -- Introduction -- Historical Context, Research Question, and Sources -- Manifestations of Frontline Fatalism -- Protective Identities on the Moral Frontiers -- Lutheran Soldiers -- Conclusions: Religious Experiences in the Frontline Community -- Bibliography -- Archival Sources -- Published Sources -- Research Literature -- Correction to: Working-Class Women Living Religion in Finland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century -- Correction to: -- Index.

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