En undersøgelse af de religiøse strømninger i Herning omkring år ...
En undersøgelse af de religiøse strømninger i Herning omkring år ...
En undersøgelse af de religiøse strømninger i Herning omkring år ...
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var domineren<strong>de</strong>. Dette skal dog ses i lyset <strong>af</strong> en generel stor an<strong>de</strong>l <strong>af</strong> disse erhvervsgrupper i<br />
<strong>Herning</strong> på daværen<strong>de</strong> tidspunkt, ligesom visse problemer med kil<strong>de</strong>grundlaget kan vanskeliggøre<br />
en entydig konklusion. Ikke <strong>de</strong>sto mindre kan <strong>de</strong>t konstateres, at ten<strong>de</strong>nserne peger i retning <strong>af</strong> en<br />
generel god opbakning til såvel <strong>de</strong> missionske som grundtvigske manifestationer fra byens<br />
mellemklasse, og <strong>un<strong>de</strong>rsøgelse</strong>r <strong>af</strong> blandt andre H. R. Lauridsen og Vagn Wåhlin un<strong>de</strong>rbygger disse<br />
ten<strong>de</strong>nser.<br />
Jeg har tidligere i specialet kort re<strong>de</strong>gjort for Wåhlins holistiske tilgangsvinkel i forsøget på at<br />
forstå vækkelserne. Wåhlin påpeger, at <strong>de</strong>t er nødvendigt med en helhedsforståelse <strong>af</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>religiøse</strong><br />
<strong>strømninger</strong>, og såle<strong>de</strong>s bør <strong>de</strong>r ikke u<strong>de</strong>lukken<strong>de</strong> fokuseres på <strong>de</strong>t økonomiske eller <strong>religiøse</strong><br />
aspekt i forsøget på at forklare vækkelserne. Ligeså <strong>af</strong>gøren<strong>de</strong> for <strong>de</strong> vaktes <strong>religiøse</strong> engagement<br />
var <strong>de</strong>res selvbevidsthed, livsforståelse og behovsdækkelse <strong>omkring</strong> <strong>de</strong>t sociale fællesskab i<br />
lokalsamfun<strong>de</strong>t. Un<strong>de</strong>rsøgelsen <strong>af</strong> <strong>de</strong> <strong>religiøse</strong> <strong>strømninger</strong> i <strong>Herning</strong> viser netop, at <strong>de</strong> engagere<strong>de</strong> i<br />
<strong>de</strong> mange foreninger ikke u<strong>de</strong>lukken<strong>de</strong> fokusere<strong>de</strong> på <strong>de</strong>t <strong>religiøse</strong> og i<strong>de</strong>ologiske, men ligele<strong>de</strong>s på<br />
<strong>de</strong>t sociale, folkelige, filantropiske, økonomiske såvel som på interessen for vi<strong>de</strong>n og lærdom.<br />
Såle<strong>de</strong>s skal foreningsmedlemskabet ses som et sær<strong>de</strong>les alsidigt engagement, <strong>de</strong>r omfatte<strong>de</strong> en<br />
bred vifte <strong>af</strong> medlemmernes behovsdækkelse på <strong>de</strong>t <strong>religiøse</strong>, i<strong>de</strong>ologiske, kulturelle, økonomiske<br />
og sociale områ<strong>de</strong>, og på <strong>de</strong>nne må<strong>de</strong> gav foreningerne medlemmerne ”<strong>de</strong>t hele liv”.<br />
14. Summary<br />
This thesis is an investigation of the <strong>de</strong>velopment of the religious life in <strong>Herning</strong> during the end of<br />
the 19 th century and the beginning of the 20 th century. The focus of the investigation is how the<br />
revivalist movements the Home Mission and the Grundtvigianism manifested itself by establishing<br />
several associations and assemblies with the purpose of carrying out their religious points of view.<br />
The historical material on which the empirical study is built inclu<strong>de</strong>s records and protocols<br />
from the various associations found at Lokalhistorisk Arkiv in <strong>Herning</strong> as well as articles and<br />
paragraphs from the local newspapers <strong>Herning</strong> Folkeblad and <strong>Herning</strong> Avis. Also memoirs,<br />
biographies and jubilee publications have been useful to <strong>de</strong>scribe and analyze the religiousness in<br />
<strong>Herning</strong> as well as more general accounts of the revivalist movements in Denmark have been<br />
valuable.<br />
During the end of the 19 th century <strong>Herning</strong> experienced a comprehensive progress and went<br />
from being a small village with just about 100 citizens in the year of 1860 to a larger town with<br />
more than 3000 people in 1901. This was to some extent due to <strong>Herning</strong>s position as railway town<br />
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