Feminine Christianity and Public Protest in Radical Pietism, 1690 - 1750.

The monograph will document the central role of radical Pietism in the northern parts of the Holy Roman Empire, in Denmark and Norway from the 1690s when religious fervor soared, to the 1750s when it calmed down. It testifies that radical Pietist women and men expressed profound critique of traditional patriarchal Christianity and demonstrates how this critique converged with other forms of social criticism, especially of political and clerical power holders and of inherited social status.