
Semper Reformanda
John Calvin, Worship, and Reformed Traditions
Barbara Pitkin(Editor)
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 19. February 2018
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205 pages
978-3-525-55273-5 (ISBN)
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Description
The chapters in this volume contribute to recent scholarship exploring the reform of worship as a central feature of Protestant communities at their inception and through the ages. Case studies ranging from sixteenth-century Geneva and its environs to the early modern Netherlands and South Asia to nineteenth-century America provide a corrective to traditional depictions of Reformed worship as a static, sober, interior, and largely individual experience focused on the sermon. The key moments in the broad stream of Reformed worship traditions analysed by an international team of experts yield collectively an image of the adaptive and negotiated character of worship attitudes and practices over time and in varied cultural settings. The contributions examine the phenomenon of worship in broadly construed ways and from angles ranging from ritual studies, liturgical innovation, material culture, and social impact. A second »red thread« running through the volume concerns the material, sensory, emotional, and experiential dimensions of Reformed religious culture. Worship emerges as both a site of conflict and renewal in Reformed traditions, inspiring not only confrontations and debates but also fruitful engagements that stimulated and continue to invite reflection on this critical category of Reformed faith traditions, self-understandings, and cultural impact.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Göttingen
Germany
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sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
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with 17 Fig.
Dimensions
Height: 23.7 cm
Width: 16 cm
Thickness: 1.9 cm
Weight
471 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-525-55273-5 (9783525552735)
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Persons
Editor
Barbara Pitkin, PhD ist Dozentin für Religiöse Studien an der Stanford Universität, Californien, USA.
Contributions
Jason Zuidema, PhD, ist Dozent für Kirchengeschichte an der McGill University in Quebec, Kanada.
Dr. Karin Maag is Director of the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the United States. She is currently serving as President of the International Congress on Calvin Research.
he International Calvin Congress.
Associate editor
Dr. Günter Frank ist Direktor der Europäischen Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten und außerplanmäßiger Professor am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie.
Dr. Bruce Gordon is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Yale Divinity School.
Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer ist Professorin em. für "Neuere deutsche Literatur" an der Universität Bern.
Tarald Rasmussen ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Universität Oslo.
Dr. Violet Soen is Associate Professor for Early Modern History at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Leuven.
Dr. Zsombor Tóth is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Literary Studies at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Dr. Günther Wassilowsky ist Professor für Kirchengeschichte an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
Prof. Dr. Siegrid Westphal ist Inhaberin des Lehrstuhls für Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit an der Universität Osnabrück sowie Direktorin des Forschungszentrums Institut für Kulturgeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit.