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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 ...

• The Teachers and the Listeners? : The Encounter of Oral and Literary Cultures in the Peripheral Parishes of Eastern Finland in Seventeenth-Century Sweden 

  Kuha, Miia (Brill, 2025)

• 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 ...