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Responding to secularization : the deaconess movement in nineteenth-century Sweden /

The causal link between modernization and secularization constitutes the core of secularization theories, but what these theories often overlook are the ways in which modernity can benefit religion. Focusing on the female diaconates contributions to education, health care, and poor relief in ninetee...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Green, Todd H.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.
Colección:Studies in the history of Christian traditions ; v. 153.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The secularization debate : an introduction to the problematic relationship between religion and modernity
  • The female diaconate in nineteenth-century Sweden
  • Education
  • Health care
  • Poor relief
  • The social significance of Swedish deaconesses.