Religious Enlightenment in the Eighteenth-Century Nordic Countries : Reason and Orthodoxy

This book explores the concept of religious Enlightenment in the Nordic countries during the long eighteenth century. It argues that Lutheran confessional culture became intertwined with Enlightenment ideas and practices in this European region. In the book’s three parts, specialist historians explore themes central to students of the early modern era – historical writing, material culture, ecclesiastical and legal reform, censorship, cameralism and innovative medical practices. It offers a timely reconsideration of a complex period in European history from a northern perspective.

An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.

Johannes Ljungberg is a Post-doctoral Researcher at the University of Copenhagen

Erik Sidenvall is an Adjunct Professor of Church History at Lund University