TY - JOUR AU - Martinsen, Lone Kølle PY - 2022/10/19 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Katolicisme i Ingemanns danmarkshistorie: En større fortælling om Nord og Syd JF - Dansk Teologisk Tidsskrift JA - DTT VL - 85 IS - 2 SE - Artikler DO - 10.7146/dtt.v85i2.134333 UR - https://tidsskrift.dk/dtt/article/view/134333 SP - 125-150 AB - <p class="Abstract"><span lang="EN-GB">This study presents a reading of Catholicism in the historical novels of the Danish author Bernhard Severin Ingemann, written between 1824 and 1836, in the light of the so-called <span class="Kursiv">Nordic Sonderweg</span>. The idea of a <span class="Kursiv">Nordic Sonderweg </span>has been propounded in historical studies since the early 1990s and has gained significance ever since. The main idea is that the notion of a free peasant class, combined with Lutheranism, played a crucial role in the rise of modern democratic societies. Nordic peasants – so it is argued – enjoyed more freedom and equality, were more trusting, and earned greater respect and prestige than their fellows in southern European countries, who were hampered by feudalism, coercion, and Catholicism. My main argument is that Ingemann, as a pastoral enlightener in the North, represents the idea of a <span class="Kursiv">Nordic Sonderweg</span> in his novels too and that his conception of Catholicism can be understood in the light of this <span class="Kursiv">grand narrative</span>.</span></p> ER -