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The Tactics of Toleration - A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious War (Paperback)
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The Tactics of Toleration - A Refugee Community in the Age of Religious War (Paperback)
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The Tactics of Toleration examines the preconditions and limits of
toleration during an age in which Europe was sharply divided along
religious lines. During the Age of Religious Wars, refugee
communities in borderland towns like the Rhineland city of Wesel
were remarkably religiously diverse and culturally heterogeneous
places. Examining religious life from the perspective of
Calvinists, Lutherans, Mennonites, and Catholics, this book
examines how residents dealt with pluralism during an age of deep
religious conflict and intolerance. Based on sources that range
from theological treatises to financial records and from marriage
registries to testimonies before secular and ecclesiastical courts,
this project offers new insights into the strategies that ordinary
people developed for managing religious pluralism during the Age of
Religious Wars. Historians have tended to emphasize the ways in
which people of different faiths created and reinforced religious
differences in the generations after the Reformation's break-up of
Christianity, usually in terms of long-term historical narratives
associated with modernization, including state building,
confessionalization, and the subsequent rise of religious
toleration after a century of religious wars. In contrast, Jesse
Spohnholz demonstrates that although this was a time when
Christians were engaged in a series of brutal religious wars
against one another, many were also learning more immediate and
short-term strategies to live alongside one another. This book
considers these "tactics for toleration" from the vantage point of
religious immigrants and their hosts, who learned to coexist
despite differences in language, culture, and religion. It demands
that scholars reconsider toleration, not only as an intellectual
construct that emerged out of the Enlightenment, but also as a
dynamic set of short-term and often informal negotiations between
ordinary people, regulating the limits of acceptable and
unacceptable behavior. Published by University of Delaware Press.
Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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