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Communal Christianity : The Life and Loss of a Peasant Vision in Early Modern Germany by David Christopher Mayes is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Communal Christianity : The Life and Loss of a Peasant Vision in Early Modern Germany about?
David Mayes proposes a new religious paradigm in early modern rural Germany. “Communal Christianity,” the religious practice prevalent among peasants in mid-sixteenth-century rural Upper Hesse is juxtaposed with the more formally organized “Confessional” sects (e.g. Lutheran, Calvinist). The author describes Communal Christianity’s characteristics and persistence in the face of attempts at confessionalization during the period of 1576-1648 and links its success in part to the decree of the 1555
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- David Christopher Mayes
- Publisher
- Brill Academic Publishers
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789004475359
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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