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Sacred Boundaries - Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-modern France (Hardcover, New)
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Sacred Boundaries - Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-modern France (Hardcover, New)
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Religious rivalry and persecution have bedeviled so many societies
that confessional difference often seems an unavoidable source of
conflict. Sacred Boundaries challenges this assumption by examining
relations between the Catholic majority and Protestant minority in
seventeenth-century France as a case study of two religious groups
constructing confessional difference and coexistence. The book
studies bi-confessional communities and families, gender roles,
confessional polemics, and conversion narratives to discuss topics
that include missions, intermarriage, cemetery sharing, women's
religious activities, and the meaning of conversion. Its
exploration of how the religious groups found ways to live together
provides an approach to studying religious rivalry in other times
and places. To explain how confessional groups in this period could
be peaceful as well as contentious, the book offers a new
conceptualization of three ways Catholics and Protestants
constructed the confessional boundary. In the first, their shared
concerns for communal harmony and familial interests led them to
blur confessional identities. In another, it led them to reach
agreements on sharing civic spaces and institutions; such
arrangements made their confessional identities clear, but each
group maintained an acknowledged place in communities. And in a
third form of boundary, the groups were rigidly divided;
Protestants were pressured to convert as a way of reintegrating
themselves into communities they shared with Catholics. Yet family
members and neighbors of the two faiths found ways to over-come
even this harshest of confessional boundaries. Through its
examination of confessional identity and the different means of
constructing the boundary between religious groups, Sacred
Boundaries provides a new understanding of the enduring concerns of
religious intolerance and coexistence. And because the study itself
crosses boundaries - in the questions it poses, the topics it
treats, and the disciplinary approaches it employs - it will
interest scholars in history, religion, anthropology, sociology,
women's studies, and literary studies.
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