Histories of experience in the world of lived religion /

This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared their religion th...

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Other Authors:	Katajala-Peltomaa, Sari (Editor), Toivo, Raisa Maria (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2022]
Series:	Palgrave studies in the history of experience.
Subjects:	Experience (Religion) Europe > Religion. Religion. Europe.
Summary:	This open access book offers a theoretical introduction to the history of experience on three conceptual levels: everyday experience, experience as process, and experience as structure. Chapters apply 'experience' to empirical case studies, exploring how people have made and shared their religion through experience in history. This book understands experience as a simultaneously socially constructed and intimately personal process that connects individuals to communities and past to future, thereby forming structures that create and direct societies. It represents the crossroads of a new field of the history of experience, and an established tradition of the history of lived religion. Chapters offer a longue duree view from the fourteenth-century heretics, via experiences of miracle, madness, sickness, suffering, prayer, conversion and death, to the religious artisanship of soldiers in the Second World War frontlines. It concentrates on Northern Europe, but includes materials from Italy, France and United Kingdom.