Revival Movements as Conflict Agendas of the Popular in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries

Veronika Albrecht-Birkner is University Professor in Church and Theology History at the University of Siegen, Germany. Stefanie Siedek-Strunk is Research Assistant at the CRC 1472 ‘Transformations of the popular’ at the University of Siegen, Germany.

• 1. Introduction.- Part I. Revival Groups in Conflicts.- 2. Moscow Martinists as the Providers of the Rosicrucian Enlightenment in Russia: Enquires into the Emergence of the Hermetic Library.- 3. Of Culture and (Indian) Nation: The Mukti Revival in Colonial Discourse.- 4. To Be or Not To Be an Entrepreneur: Disputes about the Relationship between Church and Business in the Moravian Church.- Part II. Agents of Revivalism: Opportunities and Limits of Self-Empowerment.- 5. Clairvoyance and Commotion. The Making of a Lay Prophetess in the Era of the German Revival Movement.- 6. Between the Elite and the Masses – or the Hardships of Being a Revivalist Colporteur in 19th Century Finland.- 7. “He Teaches Me so I Can Teach.”: Revivalism and Protestant Laywomen in 19th Century Italy.- 8. Conflict Area Evangelism. Controversies about Lay Preaching in the 19th Century from the Perspective of Male and Female Protagonists of the German Revival Movements.- Part III. Lay-Theology between High and Low Culture.- 9. Jung-Stilling’s Afterlife Visions in their Interconfessional and Intercultural Context.- 10. Theological Journals between Professionalisation and Cooperation: Navigating the High-low Distinction between Editorial Boards and Non-academic Contributors in Germany, 1828–1870.- 11. Revelation Remix: Using Rapture Novels by Evangelical Movements in England and America in the Early 20th Century.