Material Change

Jan De Maeyer is emeritus professor of church history at KU Leuven and honorary director of KADOC KU Leuven. Peter Jan Margry is professor of European ethnology at the University of Amsterdam and senior fellow at the Meertens Institute, a research centre of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam.

• Comparing Perspectives in Material Change: an Introduction Jan De Maeyer & Peter Jan Margry 1 THE ROLE OF ‘PRESSURE GROUPS’Introduction Jan De Maeyer 1.1 Shaping Material Reform: ‘Pressure Groups’ in Great Britain and Ireland William Whyte 1.2A Varied and Remarkably Landscape of Pressure Groups: a Societal Debate as a Result in Belgium Jan De Maeyer 1.3 Pressure Groups and Networks in the Multi-Denominational Netherlands Antoine Jacobs 1.4 The Institutionalisation of Christian Art and Architecture in Germany: Protagonists and ‘Pressure Groups’ Wolfgang Cortjaens 1.5 Church Building Societies in Scandinavia Carsten Bach-Nielsen 2. SPACE AND THE FABRIC OF BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTIONS Introduction Jan De Maeyer 2.1 Land Control and Development in the Politics of the Churches in the United Kingdom and Ireland Timothy Brittain-Catlin & Roderick O’Donnell 2.2 Reconquering a Lost Visibility: Catholic Revival in Early Industrial Belgium Thomas Coomans 2.3 Spatial Concepts in Religious Architecture and the Politics of Building in the German Countries Wolfgang Cortjaens 2.4 Reforming Religious Material Landscapes in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia Arne Bugge Amundsen 3. BUILDING AND FURNISHING OF RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE Introduction Timothy Brittain-Catlin 3.1 The Pugin Revolution and its Aftermath: the United Kingdom and Ireland Timothy Brittain-Catlin & Roderick O’Donnell 3.2 Gothic Revival: Style, Construction and Ideology in Nineteenth-Century Belgium Thomas Coomans 3.3 To Induce a Beneficial Impression in Their Souls: Church Architecture and Interior Décor in the Netherlands Wies van Leeuwen 3.4 The Dialectics of Religious Architecture and Liturgy in the German Countries Wolfgang Cortjaens 3.5 The Lutheran State Churches of Denmark, Norway and Sweden and Emerging Minorities Jens Christian Eldal 4. MATERIAL REFORM IN EVERYDAY RELIGIONIntroduction Peter Jan Margry 4.1 Victorian Piety and the Revival of Material Religion in Britain Mary Heimann 4.2 Reform and Change in Material Expressions of Catholic Devotion in Ireland Patricia Lysaght 4.3 The Material Expression of Everyday Religion in Belgium Tine Van Osselaer 4.4 Societal Change and the Shifts in the Material Expression of Devotional Catholicism in the Netherlands Peter Jan Margry 4.5 God’s Word Materialised: the Domestication of the Bible in Dutch Protestantism Fred van Lieburg 4.6 Pious Things: Popular Religiosity of the Nineteenth Century from the Perspective of Material Culture in Germany Dagmar Hänel 4.7 The Impact of Religious Reform on the Material Culture of Popular Piety in Scandinavia Anders Gustavsson Colour Illustrations Authors Index Colophon

Jan De Maeyer and Peter Margry have edited a weighty, beautifully produced tome that is the culmination of a research project that began in 2008 and issued in five volumes on religion in northwestern Europe in the long nineteenth century. - David Morgan, SZRKG/RSHRC/RSSRC, 117 (2023), 401–478, DOI: 10.24894/2673-3641.00155