Reformation and Confessionalization

Lötz-Heumann, Ute

doi:10.1016/b978-0-08-097086-8.62009-3

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“…25 When reviewing the state of confessionalization, Lotz-Heumann concluded in 2008 that its explanatory force had suffered from the findings in the studies she surveyed for her essay, though she added that the thematic remains pivotal. 26 Since then, other studies have further challenged the notion that confessionalization was a hegemonic force in early modern societies.…”

Section: Reflections Reckonings and Revelationsmentioning

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Belief in the Reformation Era: Reflections on the State of Confessionalization

Puff

2018

Cent Eur Hist

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That Christian religion pervaded many, if not most, aspects of life in sixteenth-century Europe, even the lives of those who were not Christian, is undisputed. “From birth to death stretched a long chain of ceremonies, traditions, customs, and observances, all of them Christian or Christianized, and they bound a man in spite of himself, held him captive even if he claimed to be free,” as Lucien Febvre remarked in 1942 inThe Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century. Most everyone, including the French writer François Rabelais—the subject of Febvre's study—understood their own existence within the divine order. Accordingly, “a world without God” made little or no sense. Even if,paceFebvre, early modern people occasionally entertained the idea that there was no God, individuals rarely faced charges of atheism, as Francisca Loetz has shown. Our task in researching early modern religion is, then, to chart religious thought, practice, and experience as a complex and capacious phenomenon—its scope, shape, contours, and dynamics.

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Section: Reflections Reckonings and Revelationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Belief in the Reformation Era: Reflections on the State of Confessionalization

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Reformation and Confessionalization

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Belief in the Reformation Era: Reflections on the State of Confessionalization

Belief in the Reformation Era: Reflections on the State of Confessionalization

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