Ritual, Gender, and Emotions

Matthias Pohlig (Herausgegeben von) Born 1973; Professor of Early Modern History at the Humboldt-Universität in Berlin.Susan C. Karant-Nunn (Von (Autor)) is Emerita Director of the Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies and Emerita Regents' Professor of History at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona; 1998−2010 North American Managing Coeditor of the Archive for Reformation History.

• Matthias Pohlig: Preface − Susan C. Karant-Nunn: IntroductionI. Social and Cultural History of the ReformationWhat Was Preached in German Cities in the Early Years of the Reformation?: Wildwuchs Versus Lutheran Unity − Preaching the Word in Early Modern Germany − Neoclericalism and Anticlericalism in Saxony, 1555-1675 − Patterns of Religious Practice: Nontheological Features − Popular Culture as Religious Dissent in the Post-Reformation Era − Confessional Ambiguity along Borders: Popular Contributions to Religious Tolerance in Sixteenth-Century Germany − 'Sing unto the Lord': An Anthropology of Singing and Not-Singing in the Late Reformation EraII. Ritual and ReformationRitual in Early Modern Christianity − Liturgical Rites: The Medium, the Message, the Messenger, and the Misunderstanding −'They Have Highly Offended the Community of God': Rituals of Ecclesiastical Discipline and Pastoral Membership in the Community in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century German Parishes −Babies, Baptism, Bodies, Burials, and Bliss: Ghost Stories and Their Rejection in the Late Sixteenth Century −A Women's Rite. Churching and the Reformation of RitualIII. Gender Relations and the ReformationKinder, Küche, Kirche : Social Ideology in the Sermons of Johannes Mathesius −Reformation Society, Women and the Family − The Emergence of the Pastoral Family in the German Reformation: The Parsonage as a Site of Socio-religious Change −'Fragrant Wedding Roses': Lutheran Wedding Sermons and Gender Definition in Early Modern GermanyIV. Emotions'With Covered Faces': Emotion Rituals in Early Modern Germany − Postscript on the Religious Emotions in the Late- and Post-Reformation Era: Path Dependence and Innovation