Religion and the Early Modern State
Religion and the Early Modern State
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How did state power impinge on the religion of the common people? The contributing historians of this collection uncover the process of "confessionalization", or "acculturation", by which officials of state and church collaborated in ambitious programs of Protestant or Catholic reform. Thirteen essays reveal a spectrum of possibilities which early modern governments tried to achieve by regulating religious life, as well as how religious communities consequently evolved in new directions.
- Comparison among Russian, Chinese, and European approaches to state regulation of religious life
- Combines essays discussing local phenomena with essays taking in a broader view
- Offers a special focus on England in comparison with other parts of the world
Reviews & endorsements
"each of these articles is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of early modern religious history." Slavic and East European Journal Francis McLellan, Princeton University
"The offering of contrasting yet parallel views of the interaction of religion with public authority should be richly suggestive of new lines of interpretation and inquiry to specialists accustomed to working in one or another of the global areas addressed. Many instructive interconnections and comparisons between and among these worlds are embedded in this collection and are waiting to be teased into view by the attentive reader. The standard of scholarship and presentation throughout is impressive." Renaissance Quarterly Torrance Kirby, McGill University
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October 2004Hardback
9780521828253
436 pages
229 × 152 × 29 mm
0.81kg
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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.
