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The Concept of "Confessionalization": a Historiographical Paradigm in Dispute
Get PDFSince the 1980s the concept of "confessionalization" has been one of the leading interpretive categories in the historiography on early modern Germany. This article will, firstly, explain the paradigm of confessionalization as it was developed by Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Secondly, it will recapulate the critique that has been voiced against the concept, which can be broadly differentiated into four categories: first, macro-historical criticism; second, the discussion about the periodization of the processes of confessionalization; third, the controversy about the role of theological "truth" in the process of confessionalization and about the specific characteristics of the different confessions; and fourth, the criticism of what has been called the "etatistic narrowing" or "top to bottom approach" of the concept of confessionalization. In this context, the paradigm of confessionalization has in recent years become a hotly debated subject in the field of tension between micro and macrohistory
Mutua christianorum tolerantia. Irenicism and toleration in the Netherlands. The Stinstra affair, 1740–1745
No full textConversion and the Politics of Religion in Early Modern Germany. Edited by David M. Luebke, Jared Poley, Daniel C. Ryan, and David Warren Sabean. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2012. Pp. ix + 206. Cloth $70.00. ISBN 978-0857453754.
No full textThe Concept of "Confessionalization": a Historiographical Paradigm in Dispute
No full textSince the 1980s the concept of "confessionalization" has been one of the leading interpretive categories in the historiography on early modern Germany. This article will, firstly, explain the paradigm of confessionalization as it was developed by Wolfgang Reinhard and Heinz Schilling in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Secondly, it will recapulate the critique that has been voiced against the concept, which can be broadly differentiated into four categories: first, macro-historical criticism; second, the discussion about the periodization of the processes of confessionalization; third, the controversy about the role of theological "truth" in the process of confessionalization and about the specific characteristics of the different confessions; and fourth, the criticism of what has been called the "etatistic narrowing" or "top to bottom approach" of the concept of confessionalization. In this context, the paradigm of confessionalization has in recent years become a hotly debated subject in the field of tension between micro and macrohistory
Modernity/Coloniality and Eurocentric Education: Towards a Post-Occidental Self-Understanding of the Present
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