History and memory / Explaining evil and grace / Bruce Gordon. The nature of spiritual experience / Alec Ryrie -- Reforming time / Robin B. Barnes -- Political obedience / Glenn Burgess -- Part II: Geographies and Varieties of the Reformations -- Geographies of the Protestant Reformation / Graeme Murdock -- The Bohemian Reformations / Howard Louthan -- Luther and Lutheranism / Thomas Kaufmann -- The Swiss Reformations : movements, settlements, and reimagination, 1520-1720 / Randolph C. Head -- The radicals / C. Scott Dixon -- Calvin and Reformed Protestantism / Mack P. Holt -- The English, Scottish, and Irish Reformations / Felicity Heal -- Protestantism in the age of Catholic renewal / Philip M. Soergel -- Protestantism and non-Christian religions / Andrew Colin Gow and Jeremy Fradkin -- Outsiders, dissenters, and competing visions of reform / Howard Hotson -- Pietism / Ulrike Gleixner -- Protestantism outside Europe / Mark Häberlein -- Part III: Communicating the Reformations -- Print workshops and markets / Andrew Pettegree -- The word / Helmut Puff -- The reformation of liturgy / Susan C. Karant-Nunn -- An "epistolary reformation" : the role and significance of letters in the first century of the Protestant Reformation / Mark Greengrass -- Part IV: Sites, Institutions, and Society -- University scholars of the Reformation / Michael Heyd -- Education in the Reformation / Charlotte Methuen -- Legal courts / Joel F. Harrington -- Rural society / Beat Kümin -- Civic religions / Guido Marnef -- European nobilities and the Reformation / Ronald G. Asch -- Part V: Identities and Cultural Meanings of the Reformations -- Explaining change / Craig Koslofsky -- Visual and material culture / Bridget Heal -- Music / Christopher Boyd Brown -- The body in the Reformations / Herman Roodenburg-- Sexual difference / Kathleen M. Crowther -- The natural and supernatural / Ute Lotz-Heumann -- Commerce and consumption / Christine R. Johnson -- Natural philosophy / Alisha Rankin -- Part VI: Assessing the Reformations -- Comparisons and consequences in global perspective, 1500-1750 / Merry Wiesner-Hanks -- History and memory / Bruce Gordon.
Summary:
"This is the first Handbook of the Reformations to include global Protestantism, and the most comprehensive Handbook on the development of Protestant practices which has been published so far. The volume brings together international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history. Contributions focus on key themes, such as Martin Luther or the Swiss reformations, offering an up-to-date perspective on current scholarly debates, but they also address many new themes at the cutting edge of scholarship, with particularly emphasis on the history of emotions, the history of knowledge, and global history. This new approach opens up fresh perspectives onto important questions: how did Protestant ways of conceiving the divine shape everyday life, ideas of the feminine or masculine, commercial practices, politics, notions of temporality, or violence? The aim of this Handbook is to bring to life the vitality of Reformation ideas. In these ways, the Handbook stresses that the Protestant Reformations in all their variety, and with their important "radical " wings, must be understood as one of the lasting long-term historical transformations which changed Europe and, subsequently, significant parts of the world" -- Provided by publisher.
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