Sleep preacher
As sleep preacher (Swedish sömnpredikant ; English sleeping preacher ) are referred to people who are in a sleep-like state, and trance called to preach. The sermons are often seen as direct divine revelation by the preachers themselves and by their followers . In Scandinavia, these phenomena were mostly women who did not hold any church office, so-called lay people .
Famous sleep preachers were for example Maria Åkerblom (Åkerblom movement) and Helena Konttinen.
Finland
- Anna Rogel (1751–1784)
- Karolina Utriainen (1843-1929)
- Saara Malinen (1861-1923)
- Helena Konttinen (1871-1916)
- Amanda Matilda Reunanen (1894-1965)
- Martta Räsänen (1897-1936)
- Hilda Hotti
- Maria Åkerblom (1898–1981)
Sweden
- Karin Persdotter
- Hilda Olsson
- Helena Ekblom (Predikare-Lena, Lena the preacher)
United States
- Constantine Blackmon Sanders (1831-1887), a Presbyterian
- Noah Troyer (1831-1886), an Amish artist
- John D. Kauffman (1847-1913), an Amish artist
- Edgar Cayce (1877-1945)
literature
- Friedrich Ostarhild [renamed 1935, name before: Friedrich Israël]: sleep preacher in Finland (after Aarni Voipio freely edited by F. Ostarhild). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1936.
- Aarni Voipio: Sleeping Preachers. A Study in Ecstatic Religiosity. ( Suomalaisen Tiedeakatemia toimituksia B 75.1) Helsinki, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Kirjapainon Oy 1951.
Web links
- Karoline Utriainen - heiligenlexikon.de