Archeologies of Confession: Writing the German Reformation, 1517-2017 (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association Book 16)

Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting—instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their ramifications through the centuries, __Archeologies of Confession__ carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured. Title Page -- Table of Contents -- Introduction. Reformations Lost and Found -- Part I. Silencing Plurality -- CHAPTER 1. Misremembering Hybridity -- CHAPTER 2. A Luther for Everyone -- CHAPTER 3. Challenging Plurality -- CHAPTER 4. Confessional Histories of Women and the Reformationfrom the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Century -- CHAPTER 5. Catholics as Foreign Bodies -- Part II. Recovering Plurality -- CHAPTER 6. A Catholic Genealogy of Protestant Reason -- CHAPTER 7. Fighting or Fostering Confessional Plurality? -- CHAPTER 8. Heresy and the Protestant Enlightenment -- CHAPTER 9. The Great Fire of 1711 -- Part III. Excavating Histories of Religion -- CHAPTER 10. The Early Roots of Confessional Memory -- CHAPTER 11. Early Modern German Historians Confront the Reformation's First Executions -- CHAPTER 12. Prison Tales -- CHAPTER 13. Invented Memories -- Part IV. Remembering and Forgetting -- 14. "Our Misfortune"--CHAPTER 14. "Our Misfortune"--Index Umfang und Inhalt: "Modern religious identities are rooted in collective memories that are constantly made and remade across generations. How do these mutations of memory distort our picture of historical change and the ways that historical actors perceive it? Can one give voice to those whom history has forgotten? The essays collected here examine the formation of religious identities during the Reformation in Germany through case studies of remembering and forgetting--instances in which patterns and practices of religious plurality were excised from historical memory. By tracing their ramifications through the centuries, Archeologies of Confession carefully reconstructs the often surprising histories of plurality that have otherwise been lost or obscured"--Provided by publisher