Overview

Throughout the history of mankind religion has been a creative and innovative factor of great strength, able to change societies, create new cultures, and shape strong identities. In Religion as an Agent of Change leading historians and Church historians discuss religion as a driving force in historical development on the basis of three particular cases from the history of Christianity in Western Europe: the Crusades, the Reformation, and Pietism. The empirical case studies in the book present important results and viewpoints from new research in these three historical phenomena, to a large degree undertaken in our own generation, thus establishing a solid foundation for further scholarly discussions about the role of the Christian religion as a driving force in history. Contributors are: Arne Bugge Amundsen, Ole Peter Grell, Martin H. Jung, Thomas Kaufmann, Fred van Lieburg, Christoph T. Maier, Peter Marshall, Hugh McLeod, Jonathan Phillips, Felicitas Schmieder, and John Wolffe.

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Author:   Per Ingesman
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   72
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9789004303720

ISBN 10:   9004303723
Pages:   280
Publication Date:   18 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface List of Contributors Introduction Per Ingesman The Long March of Religious History: Where have We Travelled since the Sixties, and Why? Hugh McLeod Part 1 The Crusades Pope Innocent iii and the Crusades Revisited Christoph T. Maier Caffaro of Genoa and the Motives of Early Crusaders Jonathan Phillips Opening up the World and the Minds: The Crusades as an Engine of Change in Missionary Conceptions Felicitas Schmieder Part 2 The Reformation What is Lutheran Confessional Culture? Thomas Kaufmann The Creation of a Calvinist Identity in the Reformation Period Ole Peter Grell Changing Identities in the English Reformation Peter Marshall Part 3 Pietism Piety or Pietism? A Comparison of Early Modern Danish and Dutch Examples of Interconfessional Religiosity Fred van Lieburg The Impact of Pietism on Culture and Society in Germany Martin H. Jung Crusading, Reformation and Pietism in Nineteenth-Century North Atlantic Evangelicalism John Wolffe Religion as an Agent of Change – Concluding Remarks Arne Bugge Amundsen Index

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Per Ingesman, Ph.D. (1985), is Professor of Church History at Aarhus University in Denmark. He specializes in and has published many monographs and anthologies on late medieval and early modern history and Church history.

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