The Protestant Reformation in a Context of Global History.
Religious Reforms and World Civilizations.
Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi Edited by Heinz Schilling
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(December 2017)
ISBN: 9783428153220
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The volume is not concerned with the (pretended) world effects of the Reformation. The essays turn this traditional Eurocentric approach into a global transconfessional and transreligious perspective. The aim is to evaluate whether or not Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity, Judaism, Islam and Hinduism had movements similar or equivalent to the Protestant Reformation in Latin (Western) European Civilization. Specific attention is dedicated to phenomena and categories – e.g. freedom of religion or belief – that originated during the Reformation and to whom the contemporary age has bestowed new topicality.
The present volume offers the papers of an international conference held in Trento from October 28 to 29, 2016 at the Istituto storico italo-germanico (ISIG). It used the opportunity of the 500th anniversary of the Reformation to reconsider the events within Latin Christianity in a comparative perspective and to consider them globally. The universal religious sociology of Max Weber was used and evaluated in the light of the new theoretical and methodological conditions of interdisciplinary and international research. At a moment when the debate not only in Germany is focusing on Luther and his ninety-five theses, the editors are proud to offer to the international public a volume that, in addition to the Wittenberg magnifying glass, uses the global telescope to understand the meaning of reforms or reformations in past and present times.
Heinz Schilling and Silvana Seidel Menchi
Preface
Balances and Perspectives
Wolfgang Reinhard
Globalization of Religion?
Paolo Prodi
Europe in the Age of Reformations. The Modern State and Confessionalization
Thomas Kaufmann
Politics, Theology, and Religion in the Reformation
Pierre-Antoine Fabre
Devotion and Institutions in the Age of the Reformations
Distant Comparisons, Close Comparisons
Martin Tamcke
Reform Movements in Russian Orthodoxy
Roni Weinstein
Jewish Culture in Early Modernity. The Global Turn
Gudrun Krämer
Renewal and Reform in Sunni Islam
Brian K. Pennington
Reform and Revival, Innovation and Enterprise. A Tale of Modern Hinduism
Events of 1517, Accents of 2017
Silvana Seidel Menchi
Martyrdom
Marco Ventura
Faith v. Identity. The Protestant Factor in Contemporary European Freedom of Religion or Belief
Heinz Schilling
Reform, Reformation, Confessionalization: The Latin Christian Experience
Contributors
Silvana Seidel Menchi studied history in Florence and Basel and Latin philology in Munich. After obtaining her doctorate in history, Menchi earned her habilitation qualification in Modern History. She lectured among others at the University of Trento, the University of Pisa and the EHESS Paris. Furthermore she was research associate at the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. Her field of research includes Trial Records of the Inquisition in Italy, Reformation in Italy, Censorship in Italy and Europe and Marriages in Europe 1400–1800.
Heinz Schilling received his PhD from the University of Freiburg and his habilitation qualification from Bielefeld University with his thesis »State building and religious conflict«. He held the Chair in Early Modern History at the University of Osnabrück, the University of Giessen and the Humboldt University of Berlin. His main fields of research are European Comparative History, Reformation and ›Confessionalization‹, Early modern migration and minorities and Political theory in early modern Europe.
- Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi
- Edited by Heinz Schilling
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