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Author Mayes, David

Title Christian History in Rural Germany Transcending the Catholic and Protestant Narratives
Published Boston : BRILL, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (483 p.)
Series Studies in Central European Histories Ser
Studies in Central European Histories Ser
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on the Translation -- Figures and Maps -- Introduction -- Part 1: Surges: The Civil and the Sacred United -- Introduction to Part 1 -- Chapter 1. The Animating Forces of Christian History in Rural Germany, to 1648 -- Chapter 2. Rural Gemeinden in an Age of Pluralization, 1517-1648 -- Chapter 3. Mounting Another Surge, 1648-1800s -- Chapter 4. Characteristics of Rural Christian Culture, 1648-1900s -- Chapter 5. Surging toward Crescendo, 1648-1900s -- Conclusion to Part 1 -- Part 2: Divergence: The Civil and the Sacred Disunited, 1648-
Introduction to Part 2 -- Chapter 6. The Division of Local Sacred Communities, 1648-1817 -- Chapter 7. Ministerial Conflict, 1648-1817 -- Chapter 8. Toleration Transformed, 1648-1817 -- Chapter 9. Rural Fulda amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1850s -- Chapter 10. Rural Hanau amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1860s -- Chapter 11. Rural Upper Hesse amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1900s -- Conclusion to Part 2 -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index of Place Names -- Index of Subjects
Summary Surely, Christian history in Germany principally followed the outlines of a Catholic and Protestant narrative, right? On the contrary, for Hesse, Hanau, and Fulda this dominant framework largely obscures the historical experience of most Christians, specifically rural Christians. The rural Christian narrative, animated for more than a millennium by agricultural and communal forces, principally followed an indigenous path characterized by long-term surges and setbacks. This path eventually bifurcated not in the 1517-1648 period but rather in the wake of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, and it did so not into Catholic and Protestant storylines but rather into those Christian corpora ( Gemeinden ) which maintained their local civil-sacred unity into the twentieth century and those which lost that unity after succumbing to Westphalia's divisive effects
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Christians -- Germany -- Hesse -- History
Peasants -- Religious life -- Germany -- Hesse -- History
Rural population -- Germany -- Hesse -- History
Communalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- History
Christians
Communalism -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Peasants -- Religious life
Rural population
Germany -- Hesse
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004526495
9004526498