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Conversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany

  • Hardback
  • 218 pages
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights into the historicity of the very concept of "conversion." One widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses denominational change. Yet this concept had no bearing at the outset of the Reformation. Instead, a variety of processes, such as the consolidation of territories along confessional lines, attempts to ensure civic concord, and diplomatic quarrels helped to usher in new ideas about the nature of religious boundaries and, therefore, conversion. However conceptualized, religious change- conversion-had deep social and political implications for early modern German states and societies.

David M. Luebke is Professor of History at the University of Oregon. His publications include His Majesty's Rebels: Factions, Communities, and Rural Revolt in the Black Forest (Cornell University Press 1997) and many articles, most recently "Confessions of the Dead: Interpreting Burial Practice in the Late Reformation" (Archiv f

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  • Authors

    German Studies Association +1

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Berghahn Books

  • Published

    May 2012

  • Weight

    464g

  • Page Count

    218

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780857453754

  • ISBN-10

    0857453750

  • Eden Code

    4327865

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