Ungkyrkorelsen

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Ungkyrkorörelsen ( Swedish young church movement ) was a nationalist revival and renewal movement within the Swedish Church at the beginning of the 20th century.

At the beginning of the 20th century the position of the Church of Sweden was weak, especially in the cultural and social spheres. Around 1900 the theologian Einar Billing came forward with the idea of ​​a religiously motivated people's church. Young students from Uppsala took up the idea of ​​the people's church from a nationalist perspective and carried out “crusades” through Sweden in the summer months of 1909 and 1910 under the motto “Sweden's people - God's people”. The organ of the movement was the magazine Vår Lösen .

The movement that stayed within the Church of Sweden had a major impact on the renewal of the Church of Sweden in the first half of the 20th century. The leading men Johan Alfred Eklund and Manfred Björkquist (like Einar Billing) later became bishops.

literature

  • Alf Tergel: Ungkyrkomännen, arbetarfrågan och nationalismen 1901-1911 (summary: Jungkirchler, Arbeiterfrage and Nationalismus 1901-1911). Stockholm: Verbum, 1969.
  • Alf Tergel: Från konfrontation till institution: Ungkyrkorörelsen 1912–1917 (Summary: Confrontation and Institution. The Young Church Movement 1912–1917). Stockholm: Verbum, 1974

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