This open access book focuses 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, the contributors to this edited collection consider 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.
Veronika Albrecht-Birkner is University Professor in Church and Theology History at the University of Siegen, Germany.
Stefanie Siedek-Strunk is Research Assistant at the CRC 1472 'Transformations of the popular' at the University of Siegen, Germany.