Introduction / Per Ingesman -- The long march of religious history: where have we travelled since the sixties, and why? / Hugh McLeod -- Part 1. The Crusades. Pope Innocent III and the Crusades revisited / Christoph T. Maier -- Caffaro of Genoa and the motives of early crusaders / Jonathan Phillips -- Opening up the world and the minds: the Crusades as an engine of change in missionary conceptions / Felicitas Schmieder -- Part 2. The Reformation. What is Lutheran confessional culture? / Thomas Kaufmann -- The creation of a Calvinist identity in the Reformation period / Ole Peter Grell -- Changing identities in the English Reformation / Peter Marshall -- Part 3. The Pietists. Piety or Pietism?: a comparison of early modern Danish and Dutch examples of interconfessional religiosity / Fred van Lieburg -- The impact of Pietism on culture and society in Germany / Martin H. Jung -- Crusading, Reformation and Pietism in nineteenth-century North Atlantic evangelicalism / John Wolffe -- Religion as an agent of change: concluding remarks / Arne Bugge Amundsen
Summary
In Religion as an Agent of Change leading historians and Church historians discuss religion as a driving historical force on the basis of three particular cases from the history of Christianity in Western Europe: the Crusades, the Reformation, and Pietism.-- Provided by Publisher
