Histories of Experience in the World of Lived Religion
Description:... Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Charts -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Religion as Historical Experience -- Lived Religion vis-à-vis Experience -- Three Levels of Experience -- Cultural Scripts: Models for Experience -- Communities of Experience -- Embodiment and Materiality of Experience -- Agentic Individuals -- Sources and Context -- Structure of the Volume -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2: From Lived Reality to a Cultural Script: Punishment Miracles as an Experience -- From a Blasphemer to a Devotee: Conversion as a Cultural Script -- The Canonization Process of Saint Birgitta -- A Devil Who Fell on Slippery Ice -- Bit(e)s and Pieces -- Forming a Script: Vadstena Brothers' Rhetoric in Constructing Sanctity and Sin -- Conclusions: The Relationship Between "Lived Reality," Cultural Script, and Experience as an Analytical Concept -- Bibliography -- Unprinted sources -- Printed Sources -- Online Database -- Literature -- Chapter 3: A Taste of Dissent: Experiences of Heretical Blessed Bread as a Dimension of Lived Religion in Thirteenth- and Early Fourteenth-century Languedoc -- Introduction -- Eating Bread Blessed by the Good Men -- The Ritual of Blessing Bread -- Distributing Blessed Bread in the Languedocian Communities -- Interpretations and Beliefs Concerning the Value of Blessed Bread -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Archival Sources -- Printed Sources -- Literature -- Chapter 4: The Religious Experience of Ill Health in Late Sixteenth-Century Italy -- Introduction -- Acquiring the Infirmity -- Pain, Medicine, and Healing -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Manuscripts -- Printed Sources -- Literature -- Chapter 5: Prayer and the Body in Lay Religious Experience in Early Modern Finland -- Prayer, Experience, and Materiality -- Prayer as a Material, Everyday Experience.
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