Religion and the Early Modern State
Views from China, Russia, and the West

Table of Contents

Preface Thomase Mayer
Introduction Stanford E. Lehmberg and James D. Tracy
Part I. Lived Religion and Official Religion:
1. The alternative moral universe of religious dissenter in Ming-Qing China Richard Shek
2. Ecclesiastical elites and popular belief and practice in seventeenth-century Russia Robert O. Crummey
3. The state, the churches, sociability, and folk belief in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic Willem Frijhoff
4. Communal ritual, concealed beliefs: layers of response to the regulation of ritual in Reformation England Caroline J. Litzenberger
Part II. Forms of Religious Identity:
5. Spirits of the Penumbra: deities worshipped in more than one Chinese Pantheon Romeyn Taylor
6. Orthodoxy and revolt: the role of religion in the seventeenth-century Ukrainian Uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Frank E. Sysyn
7. The Huguenot minority in early modern France Raymond A. Mentzer
8. State religion and Puritan resistance in early seventeenth-century England Paul Seaver
Part III. The Social Articulation of Belief:
9. False miracles and unattested dead bodies: investigations into popular cults in Early Modern Russia Eve Levin
10. Liturgical rites: the medium, the message, the messenger, and misunderstanding Susan C. Karant-Nunn
11. Self correction and social change in the Spanish Counter-Reformation Sara T. Nalle
12. The disenchantment of space: Salle church and the Reformation Eamon Duffy
An Epilogue at the Parish Level:
13. Popular religion and the reformation in England: a view from Cornwall Nicholas Orme.

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