Arto Luukkanen. The Religious Policy of the Stalinist State: A Case Study; The Central Standing Commission on Religious Questions, 1929–1938. (Studia Historica, number 57.) Helsinki: Suomen Historiallinen Seura. 1997. Pp. 214 and Jouko Talonen. Church under the Pressure of Stalinism: The Development of the Status and Activities of the Soviet Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church during 1944–1950. (Studia Historica Septentrionalia, number 25.) Linnanmaa: Historical Society of North Finland. 1997. Pp. xviii, 376

1998 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Historical Society ◽  
Religious Policy ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
The Status ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran Church ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran

The Gatekeepers of Change:

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-29
Author(s):  
Steinunn Arnþrúður Björnsdóttir
Keyword(s):  
Renewal Process ◽  
Change Process ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran Church ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran ◽  
Financial Issues ◽  
The Church

The case study focuses on a renewal process, initiated by the Church Central Authorities and the response of pastors in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (elci) to the process. The main finding was that participation at the grass roots level was limited. This can be explained partly by the method used by the Church Central Authorities and partly by the very structure of the church, which places the authority to make changes in the parish with the pastor and parish council. Tensions between parishes and central church authorities, issues of authority and structural and financial issues emerged as important factors that determined the success of the change process, or lack thereof.

scholarly journals Young people at a revivalist summer gathering: Rituals, liminality, and emotions

2018 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paula Nissilä
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Case Study ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
Visitor Experiences ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran Church ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran ◽  
The Church

This article examines the religiosity of young people at a summer gathering of a Christian revivalist movement. Studies on religious mass events as social phenomena, as well as research on youth participation, are still quite few. The open-air summer gatherings of the traditional Finnish revivalist movements operating within the national Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland attract masses of people from all generations simultaneously as the church itself sustains losses in attendance at the more institutional collective practices. This article seeks to answer why one of these gatherings is appealing for a group of active young people by investigating their visitor experiences and the meanings attached. The study regards the event as an arena for expressing, negotiating, and reviving religious meanings. Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and narratives, this qualitative case study seeks to illustrate current religiosity and, in general, to contribute to the comprehension of collective religiousness in people’s somewhat individualized and private religious lives.

scholarly journals A JOURNEY OF THE PEOPLE OF BETHANY MARKED BY DISPOSSESSION, STRUGGLE FOR RETURN OF LAND AND CONTINUED IMPOVERISHMENT: A CASE STUDY OF LAND REFORM THAT HAS NOT YET REDUCED POVERTY

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
O Buffel
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Property Management ◽  
Community Members ◽  
Lutheran Church ◽  
The People ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran Church ◽  
Evangelical Lutheran

This article investigates the history of the farm Bethany in the Free State (a province of South Africa), which was the first mission station of the Berlin Mission Society. It traces its history from the time when Adam Kok II allocated the farm to the Mission Society for the purpose of spreading the gospel to the indigenous people, and to its dispossession through the forced removals of 1939 and later in the 1960s. It argues that the history of the community is a journey from a community that was economically sustainable before the forced removal, to a journey of impoverishment caused by dispossession. After successful restitution of the farm in 1998, the community continues to be impoverished. The article argues for a restitution process that reduces and eliminates poverty and it challenges the Department of Land Affairs to partner with communities that have returned to their ancestral lands. In this partnership the weak and inadequate post-settlement support must be reviewed and improved in view of ensuring that livelihoods are enhanced and poverty reduced, if not eliminated. The article also challenges the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which still owns part of the farm through its Property Management Committee, to equally partner with the community members of whom the majority are members of the Lutheran Church.

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