Early Modern Religious Communities in East-Central Europe

Ethnic Diversity, Denominational Plurality, and Corporative Politics in the Principality of Transylvania (1526-1691)
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17652-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 143, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 166 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 684 g

Reihe: Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions

Conceived as another chapter in the European history of religions (Europäische Religionsgeschichte), this book deals with the intense dynamics of the overlapping political, ethnic, and denominational constellations in Reformation and post-Reformation Transylvania. Navigating along multiple narrative tracks, and attempting to treat the religious history of an entire region – over a limited time period – in a differentiated, polyfocal way, the book represents a departure from the master narratives of any singularly oriented religious history. At the same time, the present work seeks to contribute to laying the groundwork at the micro- and meso-contextual level of East-Central European confessionalization processes, and to developing interpretive models for these processes in the region.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keul, István

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
List of Maps and Figures
Prologue

1. Frameworks
2. The Region and Its Inhabitants
3. Political and Economic Developments Prior to the Reformation
4. The Reformation: Stages and Processes
5. Under Catholic Princes
6. Around the Turn of the 16th Century
7. The Rule of Gábor Bethlen
8. The Principality’s Golden Age and Decline
9. The Final Years
10. Denominational Toleration and Confessionalization

Appendix: Rulers, Church Leaders, and a Concordance of Place Names
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

István Keul, Ph.D. (2000) in Religious Studies, Tübingen University, was Privatdozent at Berlin Freie Universität. From August 2009 he is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at NTNU Trondheim. He has published on the religious history of East-Central Europe including Religion, Ethnie, Nation und die Aushandlung von Identität(en) (Berlin, 2005).