The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations (Oxford Handbooks)

"The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations covers the "long Reformation" period from ca.1400 to 1750 in its European and global dimensions. Thirty-eight contributors offer cutting-edge research. This is the most comprehensive handbook of Protestant Reformations ever published to investigate the beliefs, practices, and institutions which followed medieval reform movements and Martin Luther's Reformation in Germany. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provide a particular focus as the central time for the initial developments of faiths which began to be called "Protestant." Contributors explore the Protestant Reformations in relation to the Catholic Renewal before and after Trent and repeatedly point to areas of convergence among Protestants and Catholics. The handbook highlights the significance of cultural--historical approaches and the history of emotions to understand confessional identities. It also thoroughly engages with revisions of Max Weber's influential arguments about the impact of Protestantism on attitudes toward work, capital accumulation, and rational lifestyles. The handbook emphasizes the importance of radical traditions, especially from a global perspective. Previous handbook literature omits global Protestantism, and the influential confessionalization paradigm was entirely European-based. The point of incorporating global dimensions is that it demonstrates the vitality of varied traditions, which confronted very different institutional milieux, could significantly challenge political and cultural ideas of mainstream European faiths, and in turn reshape European Protestantisms. The handbook thus aims to be an indispensable guide to reshaping future discussions in the field, to recover the early history of Protestantism as part of our account about a history of the world This Is The First Handbook Of The Reformations To Include Global Protestantism, And The Most Comprehensive Handbook On The Development Of Protestant Practices Which Has Been Published So Far. The Volume Brings Together International Scholars In The Fields Of Theology, Intellectual Thought, And Social And Cultural History. Contributions Focus On Key Themes, Such As Martin Luther Or The Swiss Reformations, Offering An Up-to-date Perspective On Current Scholarly Debates, But They Also Address Many New Themes At The Cutting Edge Of Scholarship, With Particularly Emphasis On The History Of Emotions, The History Of Knowledge, And Global History. This New Approach Opens Up Fresh Perspectives Onto Important Questions: How Did Protestant Ways Of Conceiving The Divine Shape Everyday Life, Ideas Of The Feminine Or Masculine, Commercial Practices, Politics, Notions Of Temporality, Or Violence? The Aim Of This Handbook Is To Bring To Life The Vitality Of Reformation Ideas. In These Ways, The Handbook Stresses That The Protestant Reformations In All Their Variety, And With Their Important Radical Wings, Must Be Understood As One Of The Lasting Long-term Historical Transformations Which Changed Europe And, Subsequently, Significant Parts Of The World -- Part I: The New Theology -- Explaining Evil Nd Grace -- The Nature Of Spiritual Experience -- Reforming Time -- Political Obedience -- Part Ii: Geographies And Varieties Of The Reformations -- Geographies Of The Protestant Reformation -- The Bohemian Reformations -- Luther And Lutheranism -- The Swiss Reformations : Movements, Settlements, And Reimagination, 1520-1720 -- The Radicals -- Calvin And Reformed Protestantism -- The English, Scottish, And Irish Reformations -- Protestantism In The Age Of Catholic Renewal -- Protestantism An Non-christian Religions -- Outsiders, Dissenters, And Competing Visions Of Reform -- Pietism -- Protestantism Outside Europe -- Part Iii: Communicating The Reformations -- Print Workshops And Markets -- The Word -- The Reformation Of Liturgy -- An Epistolary Reformation : The Role Of Significance Of Letters In The First Century Of The Protestant Reformation -- Part Iv: Sites, Institutions, And Society -- University Scholars Of The Reformation -- Education In The Reformation -- Legal Courts -- Rural Society -- Civic Religions -- European Nobilities And The Reformation -- Part V: Identities And Cultural Meanings Of The Reformations -- Explaining Change -- Visual And Material Culture -- Music -- The Body In The Reformations -- Sexual Difference -- The Natural And The Supernatural -- Commerce And Consumption -- Natural Philosophy -- Part Vi: Assessing The Reformations -- Comparisons And Consequences In Global Perspective, 1500-1750 -- History And Memory. Edited By Ulinka Rublack. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. The Oxford Handbook of the Protestant Reformations covers the "long Reformation" period from around 1400 to 1750 in its European and global dimensions. The handbook investigates the beliefs, practices, and institutions which followed medieval reform movements and Martin Luther's Reformation in Germany. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries provide a particular focus as the central time for the initial developments of faiths which began to be called "Protestant." Contributors explore the Protestant Reformations in relation to the Catholic Renewal before and after Trent and repeatedly point to areas of convergence among Protestants and Catholics. The handbook highlights the significance of cultural-historical approaches and the history of emotions to understand confessional identities This Handbook Is Currently In Development, With Individual Articles Publishing Online In Advance Of Print Publication. At This Time, We Cannot Add Information About Unpublished Articles In This Handbook, However The Table Of Contents Will Continue To Grow As Additional Articles Pass Through The Review Process And Are Added To The Site. Please Note That The Online Publication Date For This Handbook Is The Date That The First Article In The Title Was Published Online.