The Laestadian revival movement emerged around the priest Lars Levi Læstadius in Swedish lappmark in the mid-nineteenth century. In this book we follow the movement over to the Norwegian side of the border and show how it spread in Norway in the latter half of the nineteenth century, the splits it underwent, and how the different groups have continued up to the present. Topics such as ethnicity, politics, schooling, and the relationship with the official church are central to the way the movement developed.

This English edition is an abridged version of the original Norwegian work Læstadianismens historie i Norge.