Promoting individualism under the guise of uniformity : A bishop's instructions in late eighteenth-century Sweden
Sidenvall, Erik LU
(2023)
p.54-78
- Abstract (Swedish)
- The ways in which a bureaucratic model of oversight could be turned into a vehicle of individualizing religious practices in late-eighteenth-century Sweden is the central concern of this chapter. It focuses on how bureaucratic measures could be used to implement enlightened reform, thereby offering a different perspective on ‘pastoral Enlightenment’ in the rural European North. By examining how Olof Wallquist, a late-eighteenth-century Swedish bishop, used his position as an ecclesiastical superior to promote change, a novel perspective on the blending of individualism and confessional culture is offered. This testifies to a process of gradual, microscopic, dislocations in which key elements of a previous social order were overtaken, step... (More)
- The ways in which a bureaucratic model of oversight could be turned into a vehicle of individualizing religious practices in late-eighteenth-century Sweden is the central concern of this chapter. It focuses on how bureaucratic measures could be used to implement enlightened reform, thereby offering a different perspective on ‘pastoral Enlightenment’ in the rural European North. By examining how Olof Wallquist, a late-eighteenth-century Swedish bishop, used his position as an ecclesiastical superior to promote change, a novel perspective on the blending of individualism and confessional culture is offered. This testifies to a process of gradual, microscopic, dislocations in which key elements of a previous social order were overtaken, step by step, by different standards of behaviour. (Less)
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- Sidenvall, Erik
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- publishing date
- 2023
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- subject
- host publication
- Religious Enlightenment in the eighteenth-century Nordic countries : Reason and Orthodoxy - Reason and Orthodoxy
- editor
- Ljungberg, Johannes and Sidenvall, Erik
- pages
- 54 - 78
- publisher
- Manchester University Press
- external identifiers
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- scopus:85186527442
- ISBN
- 978-919874040-0
- 978-919874041-7
- project
- Enlightenment Confessionalised: The Nordic Countries in the Long Eighteenth Century
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- English
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