Religion and the Early Modern State - Views From China, Russia, and the West

Klappentext Thirteen 2005 essays show worldwide perspectives of how early modern governments attempted to regulate religious life. Zusammenfassung These 2005 essays afford parallel views of England and Europe! Tsarist Russia! and Ming China! and show a spectrum of possibilities for what early modern governments tried to achieve by regulating religious life! and for how religious communities evolved in new directions! in keeping with or in spite of official injunctions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Thomase Mayer; Introduction Stanford E. Lehmberg and James D. Tracy; Part I. Lived Religion and Official Religion: 1. The alternative moral universe of religious dissenter in Ming-Qing China Richard Shek; 2. Ecclesiastical elites and popular belief and practice in seventeenth-century Russia Robert O. Crummey; 3. The state, the churches, sociability, and folk belief in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic Willem Frijhoff; 4. Communal ritual, concealed beliefs: layers of response to the regulation of ritual in Reformation England Caroline J. Litzenberger; Part II. Forms of Religious Identity: 5. Spirits of the Penumbra: deities worshipped in more than one Chinese Pantheon Romeyn Taylor; 6. Orthodoxy and revolt: the role of religion in the seventeenth-century Ukrainian Uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth Frank E. Sysyn; 7. The Huguenot minority in early modern France Raymond A. Mentzer; 8. State religion and Puritan resistance in early seventeenth-century England Paul Seaver; Part III. The Social Articulation of Belief: 9. False miracles and unattested dead bodies: investigations into popular cults in Early Modern Russia Eve Levin; 10. Liturgical rites: the medium, the message, the messenger, and misunderstanding Susan C. Karant-Nunn; 11. Self correction and social change in the Spanish Counter-Reformation Sara T. Nalle; 12. The disenchantment of space: Salle church and the Reformation Eamon Duffy; An Epilogue at the Parish Level: 13. Popular religion and the reformation in England: a view from Cornwall Nicholas Orme....

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• Authors: James D. Tracy, James D. Ragnow Tracy
• Assisted by: Tracy James D. (Editor), Ragnow Marguerite (Editor), Marguerite Ragnow (Editor), Ragnow Marguerite (Editor), James D. Tracy (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2010
• EAN: 9780521172653
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17265-3
• No. of pages: 436
• Series: Studies in Comparative Early M; Studies in Comparative Early Modern History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; China, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Europe, Russia, HISTORY / Europe / General, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Religion, General and world history, Political Control & Freedoms, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Political structure and processes