Conversion, Politics and Religion in England, 1580-1625

Informationen zum Autor fm.author_biographical_note1 Zusammenfassung Michael Questier's meticulous study examines both the individual and political implications of conversion. By discovering how people were exhorted to change religion! how they experienced conversion! and how they faced demands for Protestant conformity! this book develops a fresh view of the English Reformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: the politics of conversion 1580-1625; 2. Conversion and polemical theology; 3. The experience of change of religion; 4. Change of religion and the end of polemic; 5. The Church under the law: the regime and the enforcement of conformity; 6. 'Heresy is dead and policy is the life of religion': State, church, conversion and conformity; 7. 'The common people still retain a scent of the Roman perfume': conversion and the proselytiser; 8. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Michael C. Questier
• Assisted by: Anthony Fletcher (Editor), John Guy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.07.1996
• EAN: 9780521442145
• ISBN: 978-0-521-44214-5
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works