Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-7546-0320-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 494 g

Reihe: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History

This book considers the emergence of a remarkable diversity of churches in east-central Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, which included Catholic, Orthodox, Hussite, Lutheran, Bohemian Brethren, Calvinist, anti-Trinitarian and Greek Catholic communities. Contributors assess the extraordinary multiplicity of confessions in the Transylvanian principality, as well as the range of churches in Poland, Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary. Essays focus on how each church sought to establish its own identity in a crowded market-place of religious ideas, and on the extent to which printed literature brokered the popular reception of religious doctrine. The volume addresses how ideas about religion spread within the largely illiterate societies of east-central Europe, especially through catechisms, and how printed literature was used to instruct congregations about doctrinal truth, to encourage the faithful to pious devotions, and to shape the religious life and identity of local communities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Craciun, Maria

Ghitta, Ovidiu

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Preface; Religious reform, printed books and confessional identity, Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta and Graeme Murdock; Luther and the ‘Hussite’ catechism of 1522, Thomas Fudge; Protestant vernacular catechisms and religious reform in 16th-century east-central Europe, Krista Zach; Shaping Transylvanian anti-Trinitarian identity in an urban context, Carmen Florea; Calvinist catechizing and Hungarian reformed identity, Graeme Murdock; Building a Romanian reformed community in 17th-century Transylvania, Maria Craciun; Catholic devotional literature in 17th-century Transylvania, Csilla Gábor; Catholic identity and ecclesiastical politics in early modern Transylvania, Joachim Bahlcke; The first Greek Catholic catechisms in Hungary and Transylvania, Ovidiu Ghitta; The confessional identity of the Transylvanian Greek Catholic Church, Pompiliu Teodor; Attitudes towards the Jews and Catholic identity in 18th-century Poland, Judith Kalik; Bibliography; Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta