Forgetting Faith? Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe.; (Pluralisierung & Autoritat #29)

Karremann, Isabel, Cornel Zwierlein, and Inga Mai Groote (eds)

ISBN 10: 3110267527 / ISBN 13: 9783110267525

Published by De Gruyter, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forgetting Faith? Negotiating Confessional Conflict in Early Modern Europe.; (Pluralisierung & Autoritat #29)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3110267527
• ISBN 13: 9783110267525
• Binding: Hardcover
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Synopsis

For the last decade, early modern studies have significantly been reshaped by raising new and different questions on the uses of religion. This ‛religious turn’ has generated new discussion of the social processes at work in early modern Europe and their cultural effects ‑ from the struggle over religious rites and doctrines to the persecution of secret adherents to forbidden practices. The issue of religious pluralisation has been mostly debated in terms of dissent and escalation. But confessional controversy did not always erupt into hostilities over how to symbolize and perform the sacred nor lead to a paralysis of social agency. The order of the day may often have been to suspend confessional allegiances rather than enforce religious conflict, suggesting a pragmatic rather than polemic handling of religious plurality. This raises the urgent question of how 'normal' transconfessional and even transreligious interaction was produced in a context of highly sharpened and always present reflexivity on religious differences. Our volume takes up this question and explores it from an interdisciplinary and interconfessional perspective. The title “Forgetting Faith?” raises the question whether it was necessary or indeed possible to sidestep religious issues in specific contexts and for specific purposes. This does not mean, however, to describe early modern culture as a process of secularization. Rather, the collection invites discussion of the specific ways available to deal with confessional conflict in an oblivional mode, precisely because faith still mattered more than many other social paradigms emerging at that time, such as nationhood, ethnic origin or class defined through property.

About the Authors

Isabel Karremann, Universität München; Cornel Zwierlein, Ruhr-Universität Bochum; Inga Mai Groote, Universität Zürich, Schweiz.

Isabel Karremann, University of Munich; Cornel Zwierlein, Ruhr-University of Bochum; Inga Mai Groote, University of Zurich, Switzerland.