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Forgetting Faith? - Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
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Forgetting Faith? - Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe (Hardcover)
Series: Pluralisierung & Autoritat
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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.
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