Topographies of Tolerance and Intolerance challenges the narrative of a simple progression of tolerance and the establishment of confessional identity during the early modern period. These essays explore the lived experiences of religious plurality, providing insights into the developments and drawbacks of religious coexistence in this turbulent period. The essays examine three main groups of actors--the laity, parish clergy, and unacknowledged religious minorities--in pre- and post-Westphalian Europe. Throughout this period, the laity navigated their own often-fluid religious beliefs, the expectations of conformity held by their religious and political leaders, and the complex realities of life that involved interactions with co-religious and non-co-religious family, neighbors, and business associates on a daily basis.
Contributors are: James Blakeley, Amy Nelson Burnett, Victoria Christman, Geoffrey Dipple, Timothy G. Fehler, Emily Fisher Gray, Benjamin J. Kaplan, David M. Luebke, David Mayes, Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer, William Bradford Smith, and Shira Weidenbaum.
Author(s): Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer; Victoria Christman
Series: Studies in Central European Histories, 64
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2018
Language: English
Pages: 276
City: Leiden
Contents
Figures and Maps
Notes on Contributors
Prologue
Part 1 Defining the Boundaries of Tolerance and Intolerance
Chapter 1 Ideology, Pragmatism, and Coexistence Religious Tolerance in the Early Modern West
Chapter 2 Resisting Biconfessionalism and Coexistence in the Common Territories of the Western Swiss Confederation
Chapter 3 The Persecution of Witches and the Discourse on Toleration in Early Modern Germany
Chapter 4 Coexistence and Confessionalization Emden’s Topography of Religious Pluralism
Chapter 5 Concubinaries as Citizens Mediating Confessional Plurality in Westphalian Towns, 1550–1650
Part 2 Mapping Memory and Arbitrating Good Neighbors
Chapter 6 Imagined Conversations Strategies for Survival in the Dialogues Rustiques
Chapter 7 Anabaptists and Seventeenth-Century Arguments for Religious Toleration in Switzerland and the Netherlands
Chapter 8 Celebrating Peace in Biconfessional Augsburg Lutheran Churches and Remembrance Culture
Chapter 9 Discord via Toleration Clerical Conflict in the Post-Westphalian Imperial Territories
Chapter 10 Parish Clergy, Patronage Rights, and Regional Politics in the Convent Churches of Welver, 1532–1697
Epilogue
Index
