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Books > Christianity > Protestantism & Protestant Churches
In The Emergence of Pastoral Authority in the French Reformed
Church, c.1555-c.1572, Gianmarco Braghi offers a broad overview of
the issues and ambiguities connected to the implementation of the
authority of the first generation of Geneva-trained French Reformed
pastors and of their implications for the character and identity of
the early French Reformed movement at large, using them as a prism
for historical analysis of the transition from loose evangelicalism
to a nascent synodal-consistorial network of Reformed congregations
scattered across the kingdom of France.
Calvinism in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1548-1648 offers an
in-depth history of the Reformed Churches in the Polish-Lithuanian
Commonwealth in their first hundred years. Kazimierz Bem analyses
church polity, liturgy, the practices of Calvinist church
discipline and piety, and the reasons for conversion to and from
Calvinism in all strata of the society. Drawing on extensive
research in primary sources, Bem challenges the dominant narrative
of Protestant decline after 1570 and argues for a continued
flourishing of Calvinism in the Commonwealth until the 1630s.
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Transcripts of the Sacred in Nigeria explores how the sacred plays
itself out in contemporary Africa. It offers a creative analysis of
the logics and dynamics of the sacred (understood as the
constellation of im/possibility available to a given community) in
religion, politics, epistemology, economic development, and
reactionary violence. Using the tools of philosophy, postcolonial
criticism, political theory, African studies, religious studies,
and cultural studies, Wariboko reveals the intricate connections
between the sacred and the existential conditions that characterize
disorder, terror, trauma, despair, and hope in the postcolonial
Africa. The sacred, Wariboko argues, is not about religion or
divinity but the set of possibilities opened to a people or denied
them, the sum total of possibilities conceivable given their level
of social, technological, and economic development. These
possibilities profoundly speak to the present political moment in
sub-Saharan Africa.
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