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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.
The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices
included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be
theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to
social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses)
wed. Equally transgressive were unions that crossed religious
boundaries, such as marriages between Catholics and Protestants,
those that violated ethnic or racial barriers, and those that broke
kin-related rules. Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther's
redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out
the multiple ways that the Reformers' attempts to simplify and
clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high
politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through
the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed
Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural
institution of marriage.
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.
The significant changes in early modern German marriage practices
included many unions that violated some taboo. That taboo could be
theological and involve the marriage of monks and nuns, or refer to
social misalliances as when commoners and princes (or princesses)
wed. Equally transgressive were unions that crossed religious
boundaries, such as marriages between Catholics and Protestants,
those that violated ethnic or racial barriers, and those that broke
kin-related rules. Taking as a point of departure Martin Luther's
redefinition of marriage, the contributors to this volume spin out
the multiple ways that the Reformers' attempts to simplify and
clarify marriage affected education, philosophy, literature, high
politics, diplomacy, and law. Ranging from the Reformation, through
the ages of confessionalization, to the Enlightenment, Mixed
Matches addresses the historical complexity of the socio-cultural
institution of marriage.
The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of
conversion into the center of debate and politicking over religion
as authorities and subjects imbued religious confession with novel
meanings during the early modern era. The volume offers insights
into the historicity of the very concept of "conversion." One
widely accepted modern notion of the phenomenon simply expresses
denominational change. Yet this concept had no bearing at the
outset of the Reformation. Instead, a variety of processes, such as
the consolidation of territories along confessional lines, attempts
to ensure civic concord, and diplomatic quarrels helped to usher in
new ideas about the nature of religious boundaries and, therefore,
conversion. However conceptualized, religious change-
conversion-had deep social and political implications for early
modern German states and societies.
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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