Confessional identity in East-Central Europe
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Confessional identity in East-Central Europe
Ashgate, c2002
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [194]-197) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book considers the emergence of a remarkable diversity of churches in east-central Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, which included Catholic, Orthodox, Hussite, Lutheran, Bohemian Brethren, Calvinist, anti-Trinitarian and Greek Catholic communities. Contributors assess the extraordinary multiplicity of confessions in the Transylvanian principality, as well as the range of churches in Poland, Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary. Essays focus on how each church sought to establish its own identity in a crowded market-place of religious ideas, and on the extent to which printed literature brokered the popular reception of religious doctrine. The volume addresses how ideas about religion spread within the largely illiterate societies of east-central Europe, especially through catechisms, and how printed literature was used to instruct congregations about doctrinal truth, to encourage the faithful to pious devotions, and to shape the religious life and identity of local communities.
Table of Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Religious reform, printed books and confessional identity, Maria Craciun, Ovidiu Ghitta and Graeme Murdock
- Luther and the 'Hussite' catechism of 1522, Thomas Fudge
- Protestant vernacular catechisms and religious reform in 16th-century east-central Europe, Krista Zach
- Shaping Transylvanian anti-Trinitarian identity in an urban context, Carmen Florea
- Calvinist catechizing and Hungarian reformed identity, Graeme Murdock
- Building a Romanian reformed community in 17th-century Transylvania, Maria Craciun
- Catholic devotional literature in 17th-century Transylvania, Csilla Gabor
- Catholic identity and ecclesiastical politics in early modern Transylvania, Joachim Bahlcke
- The first Greek Catholic catechisms in Hungary and Transylvania, Ovidiu Ghitta
- The confessional identity of the Transylvanian Greek Catholic Church, Pompiliu Teodor
- Attitudes towards the Jews and Catholic identity in 18th-century Poland, Judith Kalik
- Bibliography
- Index.
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