kvhaa konferenser 94 Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Biographies Research, Results, and Reading Editor: Anders Jarlert Konferenser 94 kungl. vitterhets historie och antikvitets akademien Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Biographies. Research, Results, and Reading. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitetsakademien (KVHAA), Konferenser 94. Stockholm 2017. 250 pp. Abstract Spanning from Augustine to present time – the articles in this volume present methodological aspects on biographical work in different genres and from different angles. The difficulties in bio- graphical research and writing are discussed, as well as the results and contextual settings of old and new biographies, and the new, critical reading of biographies in our time. The 22 articles on biographical material from Finland to South Africa, and from Ireland to Lithu- ania, with some concentration on Sweden, is the result of the work of researchers active in the Com- mission Internationale d’Histoire et d’Études du Christianisme (CIHEC), at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, and other invited researchers, representing research areas such as general history, history of literature, and Slavic studies. The articles discuss biographies on medieval saints, 20th-century popes, a Russian patriarch, the Presbyterian clergy, Saami narra- tives, and the Holocaust theme. The common theme is the relevance of spiritual and ecclesiastical biographies to Church history in a wider sense, varying in time and confession. Keywords Biographies, Ecclesiastical history, Ecclesiastical biography, clergy, Pietism, Deism, hymnography, historiography © 2017 The authors and KVHAA, Stockholm ISBN 978-91-7402-448-7 ISSN 0348-1433 Publisher Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien (KVHAA, The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities) Box 5622, SE-114 86 Stockholm, Sweden http://www.vitterhetsakad.se Distribution eddy.se ab, Box 1310, SE-621 24 Visby, Sweden http://vitterhetsakad.bokorder.se Illustrations See captions Cover image The only known copy of The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1440), now in the British Library, London.  © The British Library Board MS 61823, f.1r. Cover design Lars Paulsrud Graphic design Bitte Granlund/Happy Book Printed in Sweden by Elanders Sverige, Mölnlycke 2017 Contents Anders Jarlert: Preface 7 Anders Cullhed: Spiritual Autobiographies: Augustine as a Case in Point 9 Carina Nynäs: The Biographical Images of St Birgitta: Some Reflections 13 Robert Swanson: Moulding Margery: The Life and Afterlives of Margery Kempe 24 Marie-Louise Rodén: Conversion as a Biographical Problem: The Infamous Case of Queen Christina of Sweden 37 Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin: The Biography of Bishop Francis Kirwan: Pii antistitis icon, sive de vita et morte Rmi. D. Francisci Kirovani Alladensis Episcopi 45 Urban Claesson: Olof Ekman (1639–1713) – An Ordinary Swedish Pastor as a Pioneer for Pietism. Perspectives on Writing Ecclesiastical Biographies in the Tension between Local and International Contexts 54 Yves Krumenacker: Protestant or Deist? Marie Huber’s Case 62 Eva Haettner Aurelius: Guilt and Identity. An Autobiographical Incentive in Christian Tradition with Special Emphasis on the Female Moravian Lebenslauf 76 Daniel Lindmark: Saami Exemplary Narratives, Transnational Print Culture, and Religious Reading Experience by the Turn of the 18th Century 82 Oloph Bexell: The Clergy – The most Biographed Profession in Sweden. On the Reference Books Herdaminne as a more than 200-year-old Field of Research 97 Janice Holmes: The “Absence” of Family in 19-Century Irish Presbyterian Clerical Biographies 105 Hartmut Lehmann: Different Lessons: Carl Hinrichs and Jochen Klepper as Biographers of the Prussian King Frederick William I 121 Joel Halldorf: Storytelling and Evangelical Identities 128 Jean-Marc Ticchi: The Biography of a Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church: G. Sinopoli di Giunta’s Book Il cardinale Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro 140 Per-Arne Bodin: From Biography to Hymnography. On the Canonization of Patriarch Tikhon 148 Antón M. Pazos: Recent Biographies of 20th-Century Popes. Some Comments 166 Jonas Jonson: Between Objectivity and Hagiography. To Write the Lives of Gustaf Aulén and Nathan Söderblom 176 Regina Laukaitytė: The Holocaust Theme in the Memoirs and Biographies of the Hierarchs of the Catholic Church of Lithuania 182 Aila Lauha: The Cold War and Ecclesiastical Biography in Finland 194 Christian Sorrel: Episcopal Biographies and Religious Historiography of the French Contemporary Period 209 Rev. Enock Bongani Zulu: The Contributions of Bishop Dr Manas Buthelezi as a Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Leader from 1969–2012 217 Anders Jarlert: Writing Existential Biographies as Ecclesiastical History 233 The Authors 241 Preface This volume is the result of the conference Spiritual and Ecclesiastical Biographies – Research, Results, and Reading, which took place on 11–12 June, 2015, at the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities in Stockholm. The conference was organized in cooperation with the international organisation for Church history, CIHEC (Commission Internationale d’Histoire et d’Études du Christianisme, www.cihec.org). The aim of the conference was to offer Swedish and international researchers a pos- sibility to present methodological aspects on biographical work in different genres as well as from different angles and epochs. The aim was also to offer the researchers a possibility to present their work to an international forum on an advanced level, more than presenting the biographed persons as such. Research, writing, and critical reading of biographies with relevance to Church history were the main targets. The conference covered a wide spectrum of countries, epochs, and confessions. It is my sincere hope that the volume will inspire to further work in the field of spiritual and ecclesiastical biographies, which is of such a great importance in our contempo- rary world, where religion sometimes is being treated entirely as something collective and non-personal. Anders Jarlert