Reformation of the senses : the paradox of religious belief and practice in Germany
Zusammenfassung: "Through careful examination of religious beliefs and practices in the German-speaking world from approximately 1400 to 1600, this book challenges the centuries old narrative of the transition from late medieval Christianity to Protestantism as a process of 'de-sensualizing' religion. The common assumption that Protestant Christianity is somehow more intellectual and less sensual than its late medieval and Catholic counterparts has its origins in the culture of the German evangelical movements of the early sixteenth century, and continues to influence how we think and talk about religious difference generally to this day. This study develops a critique of this narrative in two parts, integrating periods of late medieval and early modern history, often treated as distinct fields of study. In part one of the study, critical scrutiny of the practical provisioning for sensuous worship and discussions about its meaning in the church of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries reveals that late medieval religion was a far more complex, locally variegated, and dynamic thing than scholarly and popular narratives of the 'sensuous' Middle Ages often assume. Part two turns to the early Protestant Reformation's relationship to the late medieval paradigm. It shows that popular discourse framed the early Reformation as inaugurating a fundamental break with the world that came before it. Despite this, considerable continuities in belief and practice persisted, particularly in the Lutheran tradition, but also, significantly, among reformed traditions often perceived as representing a more definitively modern, and correspondingly less sensuous, form of Christianity"--(Provided by publisher.)
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- ISBN
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9780252083990
0252083997
9780252042195
0252042190
- Dimensions
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25 cm
- Extent
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ix, 296 Seiten
- Language
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Englisch
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- Keyword
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Geschichte 1400-1600
Sinnlichkeit
Religiöse Erfahrung
Frömmigkeit
Religionsausübung
Kirchliches Leben
Deutschland
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Veröffentlichung
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Urbana
- (who)
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University of Illinois Press
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2018
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Associated
- Baum, Jacob M.
- University of Illinois Press
Time of origin
- 2018
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