This study explores the relationship between educational development and religious change in Norwegian society from 1740 1891.

List of tables; Preface; Note on Norwegian place names; Map of provinces and dioceses of Norway, c. 1865; 1. Introduction; 2. Clerical generations, educational role systems, and lay religiosity, 1740-1840; 3. Organizational indicators of religious differentiation in Norwegian society, 1850-91; 4. Elite literacy and styles of religious expression; 5. Mass educational experience and styles of religious expression; 6. Religious diversity and the ambiguity of secularity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.