Religious Identity in an Early Reformation Community
Biographical note
Michele Zelinsky Hanson, Ph.D. (2000) in History, University of Pennsylvania, is Assistant Professor of History at La Salle University.
Readership
All those interested in the history of the Reformation, the history of early modern Germany, religious history, the history of Anabaptism, legal historians, as well as those interested in the history of religious conflict, toleration and identity formation.
Reviews
"Zelinsky [gelingt] eine umfassende Darstellung und Deutung der Entwicklung religiöser Identitäten und deren Auswirkungen auf soziale Beziehungen...Zelinskys Studie überzeugt schliesslich auch durch eine anspruchsvolle und dennoch erfreulich unaufgeregte sprachliche Gestaltung." Natalie Krentz, in Zeitschrift für Historische Forschung, vol. 38 (2011) no. 3, pp. 520-522.
Table of contents
Acknowledgments
A Note on Names, Translations and Quotations
Introduction
1. Ambiguous Identities
2. Religious Tensions in the 1520s
Trespassing
Blasphemy
3. Anabaptists: A Special Case?
Degrees of Association
Social Networks
Trouble with the Law
4. Magisterial Reform and Religious Deviance
5. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Political Encounters
Censorship of Printing
Critical Speeches
6. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Religious Encounters
Attacks on the Clergy
Religious Deviance
Miscellaneous
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
A Note on Names, Translations and Quotations
Introduction
1. Ambiguous Identities
2. Religious Tensions in the 1520s
Trespassing
Blasphemy
3. Anabaptists: A Special Case?
Degrees of Association
Social Networks
Trouble with the Law
4. Magisterial Reform and Religious Deviance
5. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Political Encounters
Censorship of Printing
Critical Speeches
6. Making the Bi-Confessional City: Religious Encounters
Attacks on the Clergy
Religious Deviance
Miscellaneous
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
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