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

This open access bookfocuses on the potential for conflict between high and low culture during the transformations of the popular in the field of religion in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Specifically,thecontributorsto this edited collectionconsider the so-called 'Revival Movements' that came up as a symptom of differentiation and pluralisation of Protestantism in reaction to the Enlightenment, rationalism, and criticism of religion, and explore the attempts at theological self-empowerment of Christian laymen and laywomen.