Forgetting Faith?: Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe (Pluralisierung & Autoritat, #29)

Isabel Karremann (Editor), Cornel Zwierlein (Editor), and Inga Mai Groote (Editor)

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For the last decade, early modern studies have significantly been reshaped by raising new and different questions on the uses of religion. This ‛religious turn’ has generated new discussion of the social processes at work in early modern Europe and their cultural effects ‑ from the struggle over religious rites and doctrines to the persecution of secret adherents to forbidden practices. The issue of religious pluralisation has been mostly debated in terms of dissent and escalation. But confessional controversy did not always erupt into hostilities over how to symbolize and perform the sacred nor lead to a paralysis of...Read more
  • ISBN10 3110267527
  • ISBN13 9783110267525
  • Publish Date 30 January 2012 (first published 1 January 2012)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country DE
  • Imprint De Gruyter