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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455300903321

Autore

Hanson Michele Zelinsky

Titolo

Religious identity in an early Reformation community [[electronic resource] ] : Augsburg, 1517 to 1555 / / by Michele Zelinsky Hanson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-39850-4

9786612398506

90-474-4243-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Studies in Central European histories, , 1547-1217 ; ; v. 45

Disciplina

274.3/37506

Soggetti

Reformation - Germany - Augsburg

Identification (Religion)

Electronic books.

Augsburg (Germany) Church history 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ambiguous identities -- Religious tensions in the 1520s -- Anabaptists: a special case? -- Magisterial reform and religious deviance -- Making the bi-confessional city: political -- Making the bi-confessional city: religious -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Debate over the usefulness of the confessionalization paradigm for understanding how Europeans responded to religious differences resulting from the Reformation has obscured people's experiences during the early years of reform. Based on interrogations recorded in Augsburg, Germany, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the compelling portraits of individual believers presented in this book provide a rare insight into the lives of ordinary people during one of the most controversial periods in religious history. Speaking about their faith and encounters with others in their own words, they rephrase the debate in terms of contemporary experiences. The resulting study challenges previous assumptions about the importance of belief in constructing religious identities and reveals the potential for accommodation amidst conflict.