Christian History in Rural Germany
Transcending the Catholic and Protestant Narratives
Published on 17. November 2022
Book
Hardback
484 pages
978-90-04-52648-8 (ISBN)
Description
Surely, Christian history in Germany principally followed the outlines of a Catholic and Protestant narrative, right? On the contrary, for Hesse, Hanau, and Fulda this dominant framework largely obscures the historical experience of most Christians, specifically rural Christians. The rural Christian narrative, animated for more than a millennium by agricultural and communal forces, principally followed an indigenous path characterized by long-term surges and setbacks. This path eventually bifurcated not in the 1517-1648 period but rather in the wake of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia, and it did so not into Catholic and Protestant storylines but rather into those Christian corpora (Gemeinden) which maintained their local civil-sacred unity into the twentieth century and those which lost that unity after succumbing to Westphalia's divisive effects.
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xx, 464 pp.
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
844 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-52648-8 (9789004526488)
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David Mayes, Ph.D. (2002), University of Wisconsin-Madison, is Associate Professor of History at Sam Houston State University. His publications include Communal Christianity: The Life and Loss of a Peasant Vision in Early Modern Germany (Brill, 2004) and recent articles on rural communities, names and naming, and toleration.
Content
Contents
Acknowledgements
Note on the Translation
List of Figures and Maps
Introduction
Part 1: Surges: The Civil and the Sacred United
Introduction to Part 1
1 The Animating Forces of Christian History in Rural Germany, to 1648
2 Rural Gemeinden in an Age of Pluralization, 1517-1648
?1?Scales of Corpus Christianum, and How Each Fared in the Sixteenth Century
?2?The Christian Confessions and the Imperial Territories
?3?Rural Gemeinden Navigate through Pluralization
3 Mounting Another Surge, 1648-1800s
?1?Betterment by Localizing
?2?Maintenance of Custom and Status
4 Characteristics of Rural Christian Culture, 1648-1900s
?1?Crafting the Perspective
?2?Ordering the Church
?3?Repurposing the Particulars
?4?Sacralizing the Local
?5?Localizing the Cemetery
?6?Inscribing the Culture
5 Surging toward Crescendo, 1648-1900s
?1?Betterment by Switching
?2?Betterment by Devolving
Conclusion to Part 1
Part 2: Divergence: The Civil and the Sacred Disunited, 1648-
Introduction to Part 2
6 The Division of Local Sacred Communities, 1648-1817
?1?Alleviating Disunity and Priming Disunity
?2?The Empire's Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed as Triplets in 1648
?3?The Onset of Anachronistic History and Its Early Local Effects
7 Ministerial Conflict, 1648-1817
?1?Alleged Encroachments
?2?Financial Interests
?3?Personal Honor and Dignity
?4?State Authority and Order
?5?Persons of the Tertiary Denomination
8 Toleration Transformed, 1648-1817
?1?Emigration and Exile
?2?Auslauf
?3?House Churches
?4?New Church Buildings
?5?Simultaneum
?6?Freedom of Conscience
?7?Rural Collaborations and Unifications
9 Rural Fulda amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1850s
?1?The Evangelical Union
?2?Sacred Communities Divided Anew in Rural Fulda
10 Rural Hanau amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1860s
?1?Sacred Communities United and the Gemeinde Restored
?2?Authorities' Anxiety about the Use of Multiple Churches
?3?A Switch in Strategy
11 Rural Upper Hesse amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1900s
?1?The Union's Inauspicious Start in the Region
?2?The Union Attempted in Frankenberg
?3?Collaborations and Unifications Continue in Rural Upper Hesse
?4?The Union Thwarted in Frankenberg
?5?Collaborations and Unifications Thwarted in Rural Upper Hesse
Conclusion to Part 2
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
Note on the Translation
List of Figures and Maps
Introduction
Part 1: Surges: The Civil and the Sacred United
Introduction to Part 1
1 The Animating Forces of Christian History in Rural Germany, to 1648
2 Rural Gemeinden in an Age of Pluralization, 1517-1648
?1?Scales of Corpus Christianum, and How Each Fared in the Sixteenth Century
?2?The Christian Confessions and the Imperial Territories
?3?Rural Gemeinden Navigate through Pluralization
3 Mounting Another Surge, 1648-1800s
?1?Betterment by Localizing
?2?Maintenance of Custom and Status
4 Characteristics of Rural Christian Culture, 1648-1900s
?1?Crafting the Perspective
?2?Ordering the Church
?3?Repurposing the Particulars
?4?Sacralizing the Local
?5?Localizing the Cemetery
?6?Inscribing the Culture
5 Surging toward Crescendo, 1648-1900s
?1?Betterment by Switching
?2?Betterment by Devolving
Conclusion to Part 1
Part 2: Divergence: The Civil and the Sacred Disunited, 1648-
Introduction to Part 2
6 The Division of Local Sacred Communities, 1648-1817
?1?Alleviating Disunity and Priming Disunity
?2?The Empire's Birthing of Catholics, Lutherans, and Reformed as Triplets in 1648
?3?The Onset of Anachronistic History and Its Early Local Effects
7 Ministerial Conflict, 1648-1817
?1?Alleged Encroachments
?2?Financial Interests
?3?Personal Honor and Dignity
?4?State Authority and Order
?5?Persons of the Tertiary Denomination
8 Toleration Transformed, 1648-1817
?1?Emigration and Exile
?2?Auslauf
?3?House Churches
?4?New Church Buildings
?5?Simultaneum
?6?Freedom of Conscience
?7?Rural Collaborations and Unifications
9 Rural Fulda amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1850s
?1?The Evangelical Union
?2?Sacred Communities Divided Anew in Rural Fulda
10 Rural Hanau amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1860s
?1?Sacred Communities United and the Gemeinde Restored
?2?Authorities' Anxiety about the Use of Multiple Churches
?3?A Switch in Strategy
11 Rural Upper Hesse amid the Evangelical Union, 1817-1900s
?1?The Union's Inauspicious Start in the Region
?2?The Union Attempted in Frankenberg
?3?Collaborations and Unifications Continue in Rural Upper Hesse
?4?The Union Thwarted in Frankenberg
?5?Collaborations and Unifications Thwarted in Rural Upper Hesse
Conclusion to Part 2
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index