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• Extended Families as Communities of Religious Experience in Late Seventeenth-Century Eastern Finland 

  Kuha, Miia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

  This chapter offers an interpretation of extended families as communities of experience in a rural area close to the eastern border of the Swedish realm. Through a case study of lower court records, Kuha examines the social ...

• Pyhäpäivien vietto varhaismodernin ajan Savossa (vuoteen 1710) 

  Kuha, Miia (Jyväskylän yliopisto, 2016)

  In this dissertation, I study the observance of holy days among the peasantry in the early modern province of Savo, located on the eastern periphery of the Swedish kingdom (today Eastern Finland). I examine the practices, ...

• The Agency and Practical Learning of a Lay Advocate in Seventeenth-Century Helsinki : The Case of Gabriel Abrahamsson 

  Impola, Petteri (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)

  This chapter discusses seventeenth-century Sweden, where academically trained advocates and procurators emerged but attempts of advocacy monopoly failed. The case of Gabriel Abrahamsson—a son of a pastor, a former cavalryman ...

• Religious participation in the local communities of 17th-century Eastern Finland 

  Kuha, Miia (Scandia: Tidskrift for historisk forskning, Lund University, 2022)

  In recent years, the perspective of lived religion has drawn attention toward the everyday religious practices of the laity. In early-modern Europe, the realm of the sacred could be approached in different ways from within ...

• Popular Religion in the Periphery. Church Attendance in 17th Century Eastern Finland 

  Kuha, Miia (Emanuel University, 2015)

  On the fringes of post-Reformation Europe, church and state authorities faced problems in enforcing church attendance. In the Swedish kingdom, religious uniformity was seen as vital for the success of the state after the ...