04 August 2022
Building on two seminars in LUMEN organised by Nina J. Koefoed (Aarhus) in collaboration with Andrew G. Newby (AIAS/Helsinki/Tampere) the contributions in this volume enter the debate about the way in which the provision of poor relief can be influenced by its national confessional context.
The book investigates what the obligation to care for the poor meant in a Lutheran context, how this obligation was carried out in Nordic countries, and how the obligation transformed in the nineteenth century with the modernization and democratization which produced the Nordic welfare states. In several case studies, the book also analyses the implementation of social responsibility of the authority towards different categories of poor (‘deserving’ and ‘undeserving’), local administration and centralization of poor relief through connections of public and private sources of funding, and collaboration between state, church and civil society through different public and private aspects of poor relief.
Articles by: Nina J. Koefoed, Andrew G. Newby, Esther Chung-Kim, Christian Neddens, David C. Fink, Maria Nørby Pederen, Johanna Annola & Riikka Mietinen, Anders Sevelsted, and Gorm Harste.
