Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta

Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the emergence of a remarkable diversity of churches in east-central Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, which included Catholic, Orthodox, Hussite, Lutheran, Bohemian Brethren, Calvinist, anti-Trinitarian and Greek Catholic communities. Contributors assess the extraordinary multiplicity of confessions in the Transylvanian principality, as well as the range of churches in Poland, Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary. Essays focus on how each church sought to establish its own identity in a crowded market-place of religious ideas, and on the extent to which printed literature brokered the popular reception of religious doctrine. The volume addresses how ideas about religion spread within the largely illiterate societies of east-central Europe, especially through catechisms, and how printed literature was used to instruct congregations about doctrinal truth, to encourage the faithful to pious devotions, and to shape the religious life and identity of local communities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351949798
• Artikelnr.: 48418674

Autorenporträt

Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
Religious reform, printed books and confessional identity, Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta and Graeme Murdock
Luther and the 'Hussite' catechism of 1522, Thomas Fudge
Protestant vernacular catechisms and religious reform in 16th-century east-central Europe, Krista Zach
Shaping Transylvanian anti-Trinitarian identity in an urban context, Carmen Florea
Calvinist catechizing and Hungarian reformed identity, Graeme Murdock
Building a Romanian reformed community in 17th-century Transylvania, Maria Craciun
Catholic devotional literature in 17th-century Transylvania, Csilla Gábor
Catholic identity and ecclesiastical politics in early modern Transylvania, Joachim Bahlcke
The first Greek Catholic catechisms in Hungary and Transylvania, Ovidiu Ghitta
The confessional identity of the Transylvanian Greek Catholic Church, Pompiliu Teodor
Attitudes towards the Jews and Catholic identity in 18th-century Poland, Judith Kalik
Bibliography
Index.