UID:
almahu_9949244387602882
Format:
1 online resource (287 p.)
ISBN:
9783110270051
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Pluralisierung & Autorität , 29
Content:
For the last decade, early modern studies have significantly been reshaped by raising new and different questions on the uses of religion. This 'religious turn' has generated new discussion of the social processes at work in early modern Europe and their cultural effects - from the struggle over religious rites and doctrines to the persecution of secret adherents to forbidden practices. The issue of religious pluralisation has been mostly debated in terms of dissent and escalation. But confessional controversy did not always erupt into hostilities over how to symbolize and perform the sacred nor lead to a paralysis of social agency. The order of the day may often have been to suspend confessional allegiances rather than enforce religious conflict, suggesting a pragmatic rather than polemic handling of religious plurality. This raises the urgent question of how 'normal' transconfessional and even transreligious interaction was produced in a context of highly sharpened and always present reflexivity on religious differences. Our volume takes up this question and explores it from an interdisciplinary and interconfessional perspective. The title "Forgetting Faith?" raises the question whether it was necessary or indeed possible to sidestep religious issues in specific contexts and for specific purposes. This does not mean, however, to describe early modern culture as a process of secularization. Rather, the collection invites discussion of the specific ways available to deal with confessional conflict in an oblivional mode, precisely because faith still mattered more than many other social paradigms emerging at that time, such as nationhood, ethnic origin or class defined through property.
Note:
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
,
In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Theology and Religious Studies 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238549
In:
DGBA Theology and Religious Studies 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110638165
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012, De Gruyter, 9783110288995
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LINGUISTICS AND LITERATURE 2012, De Gruyter, 9783110288902
In:
E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 2012, De Gruyter, 9783110288896
In:
E-BOOK PAKET MEDIÄVISTIK 2010-2012, De Gruyter, 9783110301168
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110267525
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9783110270051
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110270051
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110270051
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