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Author Forster, Marc R.

Title Catholic revival in the age of the baroque : religious identity in southwest Germany, 1550-1750 / Marc R. Forster
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : 4 maps
Series New studies in European history
New studies in European history.
Contents 1. The Counter-Reformation offensive, 1550-1650. Confessionalization under Austrian leadership. Tridentine reform in the Bishopric of Constance. Catholic reform under local leadership -- 2. The sacral landscape and pilgrimage piety. The sacral landscape. Pilgrimage piety -- 3. Religious practice. The liturgical year and everyday religious experience. The rise of individual devotion -- 4. Clericalism in the villages. Clericalism and communalism. Clericalism and anti-clericalism. The professionalization of the parish clergy -- 5. The communal church in German Catholicism. The communal church. The priest in the village -- 6. Reformers and intermediaries, 1650-1750. Reform and confessionalization. Intermediaries. Popular Catholicism, local religion and regional patterns
Summary Many studies of the subject of 'Catholic identity' seek to credit rulers and church leaders with creating and enforcing religious identity in Germany 'from above'. In contrast, this study argues that there were important and specific local and religious reasons why people came to consider themselves loyal Catholics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index
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Subject Catholic Church -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 16th century
Catholic Church -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 17th century
Catholic Church -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 18th century
Catholic Church -- History -- 16th century.
Catholic Church -- History -- 17th century.
Catholic Church -- History -- 18th century.
SUBJECT Catholic Church fast
Subject RELIGION -- Christianity -- Catholic.
Katholizismus
Religiöse Identität
Konfessionalität
Katholische Erneuerung
Volksfrömmigkeit
Rooms-Katholieke Kerk.
Hervormingen.
Religieuze gebruiken.
Culturele identiteit.
Katholische Kirche.
SUBJECT Germany, Southern -- Church history -- 16th century
Germany, Southern -- Church history -- 17th century
Germany, Southern -- Church history -- 18th century
Subject Southern Germany
Südwestdeutschland
Genre/Form Electronic books
Church history
History
Form Electronic book
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