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Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that
are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these
mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and
the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to
those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine
the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in
Germany through case studies of remembering and
forgetting-instances in which patterns and practices of religious
plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their
ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession
carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality
that have otherwise been lost or obscured.
Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that
are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these
mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and
the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to
those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine
the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in
Germany through case studies of remembering and
forgetting-instances in which patterns and practices of religious
plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their
ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession
carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality
that have otherwise been lost or obscured.
This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with
the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly
dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the
cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation.
Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural
hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when
ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the
formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news
pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure, and the
organization of collections.
This book argues that sixteenth-century European encounters with
the newly discovered Mexicans (in the Aztec Empire) and the newly
dominant Ottoman Empire can only be understood in relation to the
cultural and intellectual changes wrought by the Reformation.
Carina L. Johnson chronicles the resultant creation of cultural
hierarchy. Starting at the beginning of the sixteenth century, when
ideas of European superiority were not fixed, this book traces the
formation of those ideas through proto-ethnographies, news
pamphlets, Habsburg court culture, gifts of treasure, and the
organization of collections.
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