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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      09 January 2010
      17 November 1983
      ISBN:
      9780511562624
      9780521276337
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511562624
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      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.337kg, 224 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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    Social and Population History, Area Studies, European History after 1450, History, European Studies
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    In the context of continuing debates over Protestantism, capitalism and the absolutist state, this book presents a fresh historical and theoretical analysis of religion and politics in early modern Europe. The author undertakes a systematic comparative-historical analysis of the very different contributions made by the Puritan and Pietist movements to the success or failure of absolutist rule in England, Württemberg and Prussia. While Puritans and Pietists shared similar religious ideas, aspirations and ethos, they developed quite different political attitudes and alliances in each case. English Puritans made a crucial contribution to the overthrow of attempted absolutism, as the English Revolution helped ensure the further development of parliamentary rule. Pietists in Württemberg shared the anti-absolutist attitudes of the English Puritans, yet tended to remain politically passive in the constitutional struggles against absolutism. And in complete contrast, Pietists in Prussia made a vital positive contribution to the successful establishment of the militaristic, bureaucratic Prussian absolutist state.

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