The aim of this project is to interpret early Swedish Lutheran pietism in a new framework. The most common way to deal with early pietism is to understand it as an expression of individuals creating alternative communities of confessing Christians. This project will rather try to analyse pietism as an official alternative to the Lutheran orthodoxy that was prevalent in Sweden at the time. The Swedish king Charles XI introduced a new order of absolutism in the year 1680. Thereafter Lutheran orthodoxy expressed the ambition of the absolute state to foster collective integration within the frame of a household. It is reasonable to suspect that this integration by force did not work out so well in all regions. In areas disrupted by war it often failed. For instance, Swedish prisoners of war often turned to individualistic pietism. The intention is to analyse proto-industrial, ore-mining districts with agglomerations of miners as another area where the integration of the household did not work well in all respects. The study focuses upon the case of the Copper-mining industry by the city of Falun. The local vicar Olof Ekman (1639-1713) has been pointed out as one of the pioneers of Pietism in Sweden. By studying a source-material produced by Olof Ekman the study aims to present a local programme for integrating individuals as an interesting alternative to the prevalent Lutheran orthodoxy.