Global Reformations Sourcebook

Convergence, Conversion, and Conflict in Early Modern Religious Encounters
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-0-367-13398-6
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 310 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 477 g

This volume of primary sources brings together letters, memoirs, petitions, tracts, and stories related to religion and reform around the globe from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries.

The common subject of the sources is the Reformation, and these texts demonstrate the themes and impacts of religious reform in Europe and around the globe. Scholars once framed the Reformation as a sixteenth-century European dispute between Protestant and Catholic churches and states, but now look expansively at connections and entanglements between different confessions, faiths, time periods, and geographical areas. The Reformation coincided with Europeans’ expanding reach across the globe as traders, settlers, and colonists, but the role that religion played in this drive has yet to be fully explored. These readings highlight these reformers’ engagements with Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and indigenous spirituality, and the entanglement of Christian reform with colonialism, trade, enslavement, and racism.

Offering a sustained, comparative, and interdisciplinary exploration of religious transformations in the early modern world, this collection of primary sources is invaluable to both undergraduate and postgraduate students working on theology, the Reformation, and early modern society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Terpstra, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1: How to use this Sourcebook Part 2: Sources 1. Joining the Church: Translating Rituals of Initiation 2. Purifying the Community: Purging the Alien 3. Evaluating Others: Cross-Cultural Assessments 4. The Politics of Conversion – Early & Late ‘Reformation’ 5. Living Together: Co-existence, Conversion, Convergence 6. Ordering Faith, Ordering Society 7. Performing the Faith: The Art of Religious Identity & Difference 8. Exploiting Faith: Conversion, Capitalism, Colonialism 9. Going Underground – Negotiating Difference 10. Living the Traditions: The Religious Politics of Daily Life 11. Finding Self & Others

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Terpstra is Professor of History at the University of Toronto. He works at the intersections of gender, politics, charity, and religion in early modern Italy, focusing on civil and uncivil society, religious refugees, and the digital mapping of early modern social realities and relations.