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Catholic revival in the age of the baroque : religious identity in southwest Germany, 1550-1750 / Marc R. Forster.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New studies in European historyPublication details: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : 4 mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 0511018762
  • 9780511018763
  • 0521780446
  • 9780521780445
  • 0511050097
  • 9780511050091
  • 0511034849
  • 9780511034848
  • 0511118589
  • 9780511118586
  • 9780511496493
  • 0511496494
  • 1280159081
  • 9781280159084
  • 9786610159086
  • 6610159084
  • 9780521036924
  • 0521036925
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Catholic revival in the age of the baroque.DDC classification:
  • 282/.434/0903 22
LOC classification:
  • BX1537.G3 F67 2001eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
  • 15.70
Online resources:
Contents:
1. The Counter-Reformation offensive, 1550-1650. Confessionalization under Austrian leadership. Tridentine reform in the Bishopric of Constance. Catholic reform under local leadership -- 2. The sacral landscape and pilgrimage piety. The sacral landscape. Pilgrimage piety -- 3. Religious practice. The liturgical year and everyday religious experience. The rise of individual devotion -- 4. Clericalism in the villages. Clericalism and communalism. Clericalism and anti-clericalism. The professionalization of the parish clergy -- 5. The communal church in German Catholicism. The communal church. The priest in the village -- 6. Reformers and intermediaries, 1650-1750. Reform and confessionalization. Intermediaries. Popular Catholicism, local religion and regional patterns.
Summary: Many studies of the subject of 'Catholic identity' seek to credit rulers and church leaders with creating and enforcing religious identity in Germany 'from above'. In contrast, this study argues that there were important and specific local and religious reasons why people came to consider themselves loyal Catholics.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)77963

Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index.

Print version record.

Many studies of the subject of 'Catholic identity' seek to credit rulers and church leaders with creating and enforcing religious identity in Germany 'from above'. In contrast, this study argues that there were important and specific local and religious reasons why people came to consider themselves loyal Catholics.

1. The Counter-Reformation offensive, 1550-1650. Confessionalization under Austrian leadership. Tridentine reform in the Bishopric of Constance. Catholic reform under local leadership -- 2. The sacral landscape and pilgrimage piety. The sacral landscape. Pilgrimage piety -- 3. Religious practice. The liturgical year and everyday religious experience. The rise of individual devotion -- 4. Clericalism in the villages. Clericalism and communalism. Clericalism and anti-clericalism. The professionalization of the parish clergy -- 5. The communal church in German Catholicism. The communal church. The priest in the village -- 6. Reformers and intermediaries, 1650-1750. Reform and confessionalization. Intermediaries. Popular Catholicism, local religion and regional patterns.