This study presents a reading of Catholicism in the historical novels Danish author Bernhard Severin Ingemann, written between 1824 and 1836, light so-called Nordic Sonderweg. The idea Sonderweg has been propounded studies since early 1990s gained significance ever since. main is that notion free peasant class, combined with Lutheranism, played crucial role rise modern democratic societies. pea...

In the colonial era, many Spanish missionaries in Andes sought a total temporal and cultural break between pagan past desired Christian future of indigenous Andeans. Discussions conversion modern-day have often echoed this line thinking, portraying conversion—whether to Protestantism or Roman Catholicism—as an event radical discontinuity, mapping rupture onto invasion subsequent evangelisation ...

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