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Hometown Religion - Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia (Hardcover)
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Hometown Religion - Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Early Modern Germany History
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The pluralization of Christian religion was the defining fact of
cultural life in sixteenth-century Europe. Everywhere they took
root, ideas of evangelical reform disturbed the unity of religious
observance on which political community was founded. By the third
quarter of the sixteenth century, one or another form of
Christianity had emerged as dominant in most territories of the
Holy Roman Empire. In Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in
Early Modern Westphalia, David Luebke examines a territory that
managed to escape that fate-the prince-bishopric of Munster, a
sprawling ecclesiastical principality and the heart of an entire
region in which no single form of Christianity dominated. In this
confessional ""no-man's-land,"" a largely peaceable order took
shape and survived well into the mid-seventeenth century, a unique
situation, which raises several intriguing questions: How did
Catholics and Protestants manage to share parishes for so long
without religious violence? How did they hold together their
communities in the face of religious pluralization? Luebke responds
by examining the birth, maturation, old age, and death of a
biconfessional ""regime""-a system of laws, territorial agreements,
customs, and tacit understandings that enabled Roman Catholics and
Protestants, Lutherans as well as Calvinists, to cohabit the
territory's parishes for the better part of a century. In revealing
how these towns were able to preserve peace and unity-in the Age of
Religious Wars- Hometown Religion attests to the power of
toleration in the conduct of everyday life.
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