The Tactics of Toleration examines the preconditions and limits of toleration during an age in which Europe was sharply divided along religious lines. During the Age of Religious Wars, refugee communities in borderland towns like the Rhineland city of Wesel were remarkably religiously diverse and culturally heterogeneous places. Examining religious life from the perspective of Calvinists, Lutherans, Mennonites, and Catholics, this book examines how residents dealt with pluralism during an age of deep religious conflict and intolerance.
List of contents
Religious toleration and the Reformation of the refugees
Religious refugees and the rise of confessional tensions
Calvinist discipline and the boundaries of religious toleration
The strained hospitality of the Lutheran community
Surviving dissent : Mennonites and Catholics in Wesel
The practice of toleration : religious life in Reformation-era Wesel
About the author
Jesse Spohnholz is Director of The Roots of Contemporary Issues World History Program and Professor of History at Washington State University
Summary
Examines the preconditions and limits of toleration during an age in which Europe was sharply divided along religious lines. Examining religious life from the perspective of Calvinists, Lutherans, Mennonites, and Catholics, this book examines how residents dealt with pluralism during an age of deep religious conflict and intolerance.
