Dealings With God - From Blasphemers in Early Modern Zurich to a Cultural History of

Zusatztext '... Dealings with God is a meticulous and comprehensive study about blasphemy and a model of social scientific rigor and methods.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'In all! the book offers a highly insightful discussion of a sociocultural phenomenon that inseparably links religious! administrative! political and social linguistic action. It is precisely this link that historical corpus pragmatists should not lose sight of when trying to make sense of linguistic material that is encoded in statistical data.' Journal of Historical Pragmatics Informationen zum Autor Francisca Loetz is a Professor at the University of Zurich! Switzerland. Klappentext Focusing on the city of Zurich! this study examines the cultural and theological aspects of blasphemy in order to better understand why this should be! and to illuminate the diverse and sometimes contradictory dynamics at work. Zusammenfassung Focusing on the city of Zurich, this study examines the cultural and theological aspects of blasphemy in order to better understand why this should be, and to illuminate the diverse and sometimes contradictory dynamics at work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Religion in Early Modern History: An Approach by way of Blasphemers in ZurichpartII The Offence of Blasphemy in Early Modern ZurichpartIII Blasphemy in Zurich: Historical Change and Confessional ComparisonpartIV Outcomes and Outlook: From the Blasphemers of Zurich to a Cultural History of Religiousness;

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Francisca Loetz, Loetz Francisca
• Mitarbeit: Rosemary Selle (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 10.11.2009
• EAN: 9780754668831
• ISBN: 978-0-7546-6883-1
• Seiten: 344
• Serie: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte; HISTORY / General, Social & cultural history, Religion: general, Christianity, History of Religion, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Church history, History and Archaeology