Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe C. 1300-1700
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9789004328853
Subjects: Europe, church history; Europe, social life and customs
Description: Lived Religion and the Long Reformation in Northern Europe' puts Reformation in a daily life context using lived religion as a conceptual and methodological tool: exploring how people "lived out" their religion in their mundane toils and how religion created a performative space for them. This collection reinvestigates the character of the Reformation in an area that later became the heartlands of Lutheranism. The way people lived their religion was intricately linked with questions of the value of individual experience, communal cohesion and interaction. During the late Middle Ages and Early Modern Era religious certainty was replaced by the experience of doubt and hesitation. Negotiations on and between various social levels manifest the needs, aspirations and resistance behind the religious change.