Religion and the Early Modern State : Views from China, Russia, and the West (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History)

Religion and the Early Modern State : Views from China, Russia, and the West (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History)

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Book Description
How did state power impinge on the religion of the common people? The contributing historians of this collection uncover the process of "confessionalization", or "acculturation", by which officials of state and church collaborated in ambitious programs of Protestant or Catholic reform. Thirteen essays reveal a spectrum of possibilities which early modern governments tried to achieve by regulating religious life, as well as how religious communities consequently evolved in new directions.

About the Author
James Tracy teaches in the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War (Cambridge 2002) and The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and Global Trade, 1350-1750 (Cambridge, 1991). He is the editor of City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2000) and of the Journal of Early Modern History. Marguerite Ragnow is the Associate Director at the Center for Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota.

Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West (Studies in Comparative Early Modern History),James D. Tracy,Marguerite Ragnow,Cambridge University Press,0521828252,Europe - General,History,History & Theory - General,History - General History,History: World,Modern - General,Religion and state,Religion, Politics & State,Christianity,Europe,European history: c 1500 to c 1750,History / Europe / General,History of religion

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