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Hometown Religion

Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia

Av David M. Luebke

Del i serien Studies in Early Modern Germany History

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The pluralization of Christian religion was the defining fact of cultural life in sixteenth-century Europe. Everywhere they took root, ideas of evangelical reform disturbed the unity of religious observance on which political community was founded. By the third quarter of the sixteenth century, one or another form of Christianity had emerged as dominant in most territories of the Holy Roman Empire. In Hometown Religion: Regimes of Coexistence in Early Modern Westphalia, David Luebke examines a territory that managed to escape that fate—the prince-bishopric of Münster, a sprawling ecclesiastical principality and the heart of an entire region in which no single form of Christianity dominated. In this confessional ""no-man’s-land,"" a largely peaceable order took shape and survived well into the mid-seventeenth century, a unique situation, which raises several intriguing questions: How did Catholics and Protestants manage to share parishes for so long without religious violence? How did they hold together their communities in the face of religious pluralization? Luebke responds by examining the birth, maturation, old age, and death of a biconfessional ""regime""—a system of laws, territorial agreements, customs, and tacit understandings that enabled Roman Catholics and Protestants, Lutherans as well as Calvinists, to cohabit the territory’s parishes for the better part of a century.In revealing how these towns were able to preserve peace and unity—in the Age of Religious Wars— Hometown Religion attests to the power of toleration in the conduct of everyday life.
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David M. Luebke, Professor of History at the University of Oregon, USA, is the coeditor of Mixed Matches: Transgressive Unions in Germany from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, among other books.

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What Luebke does that is so original here is to uncover and explain the ritual practices that developed in Münster in the period 1553–1624—ritual practices that articulated the arrangements and embodied the accommodations that peaceful coexistence entailed. Examining the rites of baptism, marriage, communion, and burial, the book shows how the native clergy and laity of Münster sought through ritual to preserve the cohesion of their religiously mixed communities in the face of increasing pressures for religious uniformity."" — Benjamin J. Kaplan, University College London, author of Cunegonde's Kidnapping: A Story of Religious Conflict in the Age of Enlightenment""Hometown Religion is a sound and original piece of scholarship based on extensive archival research. It shows a masterly command of the primary and secondary sources, and it makes a persuasive and interesting argument about an important aspect of early modern German history. It ranks as a first-rate book. It also adds considerably to our knowledge and advances the state of the field beyond what German scholars have achieved themselves."" — R. Po-chia Hsia, Penn State, author of A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552-1610

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