The Protestant Reformation in a Context of Global History
Religious Reforms and World Civilizations
Pubb. online: 2017
Isbn ed.dig.: 978-88-15-33863-1
DOI: 10.978.8815/338631
Isbn ed.dig.: 978-88-15-33863-1
DOI: 10.978.8815/338631
Indice
- Preface
- 1. Introductory remarks
- 2. Balances and perspectives
- 3. Distant comparisons, close comparisons
- 4. Events of 1517, accents of 2017
- 5. Acknowledgements
- BALANCES AND PERSPECTIVES
- Globalization of Religion?
- Europe in the Age of Reformations. The Modern State and Confessionalization
- 1. Foreword: The end of confessional history or history-writing?
- 2. Territorial churches and the modern state
- 3. Conscience and the law
- 4. Before and after Vatican II
- 5. New paradigms for the historian
- Politics, Theology, and Religion in the Reformation
- Devotion and Institutions in the Age of the Reformations
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The broken circles of ecclesiastical control
- 3. Theology and religion between Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- 4. Christian faith between old and new worlds
- DISTANT COMPARISONS, CLOSE COMPARISONS
- Reform Movements in Russian Orthodoxy
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Strigolniki
- 3. The “non-possessors” and the “Judaizers”
- 4. The Old Believers
- 5. Reform ideas, but no reform movements
- 6. Conclusion
- Jewish Culture in Early Modernity. The Global Turn
- I.
- II.
- III.
- Renewal and Reform in Sunni Islam
- Reform and Revival, Innovation and Enterprise. A Tale of Modern Hinduism
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Precolonial reform
- 3. Colonial contact and emergent reformism
- 4. The question of authority: Reform becomes revival
- 5. Reform as innovation
- 6. Reform as enterprise
- 7. Conclusion
- EVENTS OF 1517, ACCENTS OF 2017
- Martyrdom
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Plurality of martyrdom
- 3. A forger at work
- 4. Analogies or divergences?
- 5. Conscience
- 6. Conclusion
- Faith v. Identity. The Protestant Factor in Contemporary European Freedom of Religion or Belief
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Contemporary European freedom of religion or belief
- 3. The Protestant factor and the present challenge
- 4. Conclusions
- Reform, Reformation, Confessionalization. The Latin Christian Experience
- I.
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II.
- 1. October 31, 1517: A landmark in world history?
- 2. Reform and Reformation in Latin Christianity
- 3. Specific profile of Luther’s type of reform: Redirection of religion towards the world
- 4. Competition between different concepts of reforms and antagonism and fundamental hostility of confessional systems
- III.