Trusting in God and His Earthly Masks

Exploring the Lutheran Roots of Scandinavian High-Trust Culture

Bibliographic Data

ID5084976
AuthorsSasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa (0000-0002-5170-1654, Aarhus University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume33
Issue4
Pages456-472
Publication date2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Historical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0952-1909 • E-ISSN: 1467-6443
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/johs.12300
OpenAlexW3111412190
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited37

In recent years, the high level of trust among Scandinavians in general and Danes in particular has attracted considerable international interest. The article unearths the rooting of Danish trust culture in Lutheran soil arguing for the influence of Lutheran theology and social teaching on Danish society from the Reformation onwards as a key to understanding its historical background. It identifies central social imaginaries of trust in Luther's work and trace their impact on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Danish Lutheran confessional culture by analyzing texts written by the influential theologians Erik Pontoppidan (1698-1764) and Niels Frederik Severin Grundtvig (1783-1872

Epistemology · Sociology · Historical and Archaeological Studies · Historical Legal Studies and Society · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious studies

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