Religious Identity in an Early Reformation Community: Augsburg, 1517 to 1555

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-90-04-16673-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 45, 242 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 244 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Studies in Central European Histories

Debate over the usefulness of the confessionalization paradigm for understanding how Europeans responded to religious differences resulting from the Reformation has obscured people's experiences during the early years of reform. Based on interrogations recorded in Augsburg, Germany, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the compelling portraits of individual believers presented in this book provide a rare insight into the lives of ordinary people during one of the most controversial periods in religious history. Speaking about their faith and encounters with others in their own words, they rephrase the debate in terms of contemporary experiences. The resulting study challenges previous assumptions about the importance of belief in constructing religious identities and reveals the potential for accommodation amidst conflict.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zelinsky Hanson, Michele

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
A Note on Names, Translations and Quotations

Introduction

1. Ambiguous Identities
2. Religious Tensions in the 1520s
Trespassing
Blasphemy
3. Anabaptists: A Special Case?
Degrees of Association
Social Networks
Trouble with the Law
4. Magisterial Reform and Religious Deviance
5. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Political Encounters
Censorship of Printing
Critical Speeches
6. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Religious Encounters
Attacks on the Clergy
Religious Deviance
Miscellaneous

Conclusion

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Michele Zelinsky Hanson, Ph.D. (2000) in History, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of History at La Salle University.