The Reformation : Towards a New History
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0521889499
ISBN-13
9780521889490
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 15th, 2011
Print length
284 Pages
Weight
570 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
European historyEarly modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700History of religion
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The Reformation and the encounter between Europe and the Western hemisphere have long been treated as separate events. Lee Palmer Wandel brings the two narratives together, casting a history of human difference, of multiple understandings of Christianity, each shaped by the encounter with unknown worlds.
This book recasts the story of the Reformation by bringing together two histories: the Encounter between Europe and the western hemisphere beginning in 1492; and the fragmentation of European Christendom in the sixteenth century. In so doing, it restores resonance to ''idolatry'', ''cannibal'', ''barbarian'', even as it moves past such polemics to trace multiple understandings of divinity, matter and human nature. So many aspects of human life, from marriage and family through politics to ways of thinking about space and time, were called into question. Debates on human nature and conversion forged new understandings of religious identity. Debates on the relationship of humanity to the material world forged new understandings of image and ritual, new understandings of physics. By the end of the century, there was not one ''Christian religion'', but many, and many understandings of the Christian in the world.
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