The Making of Christianities in History
A Processing Approach
Edited by Staf Hellemans Edited by Gerard Rouwhorst
There has been a major trend among social scientists and historians to assume that the history of modernity can be studied without taking into consideration religion as an important factor. This in contrast to premodern societies in which religion would have played such a predominant and all-embracing role that a total symbiosis between religion and society would have existed. Both of these views are challenged by the authors of this volume. They claim that neither of them does justice to the complexity of the relationship between society and religion. They propose a theoretical framework that fully addresses this complexity by focussing on the variegated active ways in which religious agents (groups and individuals) process(ed) their societal and religious contexts in the modern era as well as in the premodern period. Viewed from this perspective, the history of Christianity appears as the heterogeneous result of an ongoing and unceasing selective processing by all Christians – and non-Christians – of their environment. The application of this new theoretical and methodological framework sheds light – often in a surprising and unexpected way – on various processes in the history of Christianity: the conflict-ridden parting of the ways between Jews and Christians; the emergence and development of early Christian rituals; the formation of a Cathar Counter- Church; the emergence of new forms of Christianity in North America; the complicated and ambiguous evolution of Roman Catholicism in modernity.
There has been a major trend among social scientists and historians to assume that the history of modernity can be studied without taking into consideration religion as an important factor. This in contrast to premodern societies in which religion would have played such a predominant and all-embracing role that a total symbiosis between religion and society would have existed. Both of these views are challenged by the authors of this volume. They claim that neither of them does justice to the complexity of the relationship between society and religion. They propose a theoretical framework that fully addresses this complexity by focussing on the variegated active ways in which religious agents (groups and individuals) process(ed) their societal and religious contexts in the modern era as well as in the premodern period. Viewed from this perspective, the history of Christianity appears as the heterogeneous result of an ongoing and unceasing selective processing by all Christians – and non-Christians – of their environment. The application of this new theoretical and methodological framework sheds light – often in a surprising and unexpected way – on various processes in the history of Christianity: the conflict-ridden parting of the ways between Jews and Christians; the emergence and development of early Christian rituals; the formation of a Cathar Counter- Church; the emergence of new forms of Christianity in North America; the complicated and ambiguous evolution of Roman Catholicism in modernity.
- Edited by Staf Hellemans
- Edited by Gerard Rouwhorst
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Pulchritudo tam antiqua et tam nova
Studies in History of Christianity in Honour of Mathijs Lamberigts / Etudes d'histoire du christianisme en l'honneur de M. Lamberigts
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Taize, une parabole d’unite
Histoire de la communaute des origines au concile de jeunes [trad. francaise de l'italien Storia della comunita dalle origini al concilio dei giovani]
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Produire et publier de la theologie dans le monde catholique
Des Restaurations a Vatican II
Volume 118
Un age d’or des chapitres nobles de chanoinesses en Europe au XVIIIe siecle
Le cas de la Franche-Comte
Volume 109
Les martyrs oublies?
Les missionnaires dans la tempete de la rebellion des Simbas au Congo en 1964-1966
Volume 100
Verso l’ Ut Omnes – Towards Ut Omnes
Vie, luoghi e protagonisti dell'ecumenismo cattolico prima del Vaticano II - Ways, places and protagonists of Catholic ecumenism before Vatican II
Volume 110
Science, philosophie et theologie chez Edouard Le Roy
La controverse autour de Qu'est-ce qu'un dogme ? (1905-1907)
Volume 97
Les jesuites francais dans la tourmente (1949-1951)
Rapports Dhanis, affaire de Fourviere et encyclique Humani generis
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Histoire litteraire des benedictins de Saint-Maur
Tome Cinquieme : Abbayes - Index Nominum
Volume 103
La theologie catholique entre intransigeance et renouveau
La reception des mouvements preconciliaires a Vatican II
Volume 95
Vatican I, Infallible or Neglectable?
Historical and Theological Approaches to the Event and Reception of the First Vatican Council
Volume 113
The Quintessence of Lives
Intellectual Biographies in the Low Countries presented to Jan Roegiers
Volume 91
A Cathedral of Constitutional Law
Essays on the Earliest Constitutions of the Order of Preachers, with an English Translation of Fr Antoninus H. Thomas's 1965 Study
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Hoghe minne es deen vor dander
Essays on the Christian Mystical Tradition in Honour of Rob Faesen SJ
Volume 122
Nouveaux regards sur l’avouerie
Les avoues des abbayes et des sieges episcopaux entre Loire et Rhin (fin IXe - milieu XIIIe siecle)
Volume 121
De canonicis qui seculares dicuntur
Treize siecles de chapitres seculiers dans les anciens Pays-Bas. Thirteen Centuries of Chapters of Secular Canons in the Low Countries
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