Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion

Sari Katajala-Peltomaa is Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences and Chair of Trivium (Tampere Centre for Classical, Medieval and Early Modern Studies). She has published widely on lived religion, hagiography, family and gender in medieval Europe.Raisa Maria Toivo is Professor of History at Tampere University, Finland and leader of the 'Lived Religion' group at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences. She has published widely on the social history early modern religion, gender and domestic violence.

• ​1. Introduction: Religion as historical experience, by Sari Katajala-Peltomaa and Raisa Maria Toivo.- 2. From lived reality to a cultural script: Punishment miracles as an experience- Sari Katajala-Peltomaa.- 3. A taste of dissent. Experiences of heretical blessed bread as a dimension of lived religion in 13th- and early 14th-century Languedoc- Saku Pihko.- 4. The religious experience of ill health in late 16th-century Italy- Jenni Kuuliala.- 5. Prayer and the body in lay religious experience in early modern Finland- Raisa Maria Toivo.- 6. Extended families as communities of religious experience in late 17th-century eastern Finland- Miia Kuha.- 7. Constructing “mad” religious experiences in early modern Sweden- Riikka Miettinen.- 8. The trials of Sarah Wheeler (1807-1867) – experiencing submission- Mervi Kaarninen.- 9. Working-class women living religion in Finland at the turn of the 20th century- Pirjo Markkola.- 10. To the undiscovered country: Facing death in early twentieth-century Finnish poorhouses- Johanna Annola.- 11. Artisans of religion at the moral frontiers: Finnish soldiers’ religious practices, beliefs, and attitudes in World War II- Ville Kivimäki.