Using "lived religion" as its conceptual tool, this book explores how the Reformation showed itself in and was influenced by lay people's everyday lives. It reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in what later became the heartlands of Lutheranism.

Sari Katajala-Peltomaa, Ph.D is a Research Fellow at the University of Tampere. She has focused on late medieval hagiography and particularly canonization processes, and published on religion, family and gender, including the monograph Gender, Miracles and Daily Life (Brepols 2009).
Raisa Maria Toivo, Ph.D. is an Academy Research Fellow at the University of Tampere. She has published widely on early modern religious history and witchcraft, her works including Faith and Magic in Early Modern Finland (Palgrave 2016).