Title: Archaeologies of confession : writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 /
Authors: Johnson, Carina L., 1967-; Luebke, David Martin, 1960-; Plummer, Marjorie Elizabeth; Spohnholz, Jesse, 1974-
Year: 2017
Subjects: Reformation Germany Historiography.; Identification (Religion) Social aspects Germany Historiography.; Religious pluralism Germany Historiography.; Collective memory Germany.; Church historians Germany.; Germany Church history Historiography.; Germany Religious life and customs Historiography.
Abstract: "Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting--instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured"--Provided by publisher.
Contents: Introduction / Carina L. Johnson -- Part I. Silencing plurality -- David M. Luebke, "Misremembering hybridity : the myth of Goldenstedt" -- Stan Landry, "A Luther for everyone : Irenicism and orthodoxy at the German Reformation anniversaries of 1817" -- Anthony J. Steinhoff, "Viewing the past through confessional lenses : Wilhelm Horning as Alsatian Church historian" -- Merry Wiesner-Hanks, "Confessional histories of women and the Reformation from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century" -- Ralf-Peter Fuchs, "Catholics as 'foreign bodies' : the County of Mark as a Protestant territory in Prussian historiography of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries" -- Part II. Recovering plurality -- Richard Schaefer, "A Catholic genealogy of Protestant reason" -- Alexander Schunka, "Fighting or fostering plurality? : Ernst Salomon Cyprian as a historian of Lutheranism in the early eighteenth century" -- Michael Printy, "Heresy and the Protestant enlightenment : Johann Lorenz von Mosheim's History of Michael Servetus (1748)" -- Dean Bell, "The Great Fire of 1711 : re-conceptualizing the Jewish ghetto and Jewish-Christian relations in early modern Frankfurt am Main" -- Part III. Excavating histories of religion -- Natalie Krentz, "The early roots of confessional memory : Martin Luther burns the Papal Bull on 10 December 1520" -- Robert Christman, "Early modern German historians confront the reformation's first executions" -- Beth Plummer, "Prison tales : the miraculous escape of Stephen Agricola and the creation of Lutheran heroes during the sixteenth century" -- Jesse Spohnholz, "Invented memories : the 'Convent of Wesel' and the origins of German and Dutch Calvinism" -- Ivremembering and forgetting -- Thomas A. Brady, Jr., "'Our misfortune' : unity and plurality of religion in the making of modern Germany."