Religion and the Early Modern State ：Views from China, Russia, and the West ( Studies in Comparative Early Modern History )

Publication subTitle ：Views from China, Russia, and the West

Publication series ：Studies in Comparative Early Modern History

Author： James D. Tracy; Marguerite Ragnow

Publisher： Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year： 2004

E-ISBN: 9780511889424

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521828253

Subject： B911 宗教与社会政治

Keyword：欧洲史

Language： ENG

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Religion and the Early Modern State

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How did state power impinge on the religion of the ordinary person? This perennial issue has been sharpened as historians uncover the process of 'confessionalization' or 'acculturation', by which officials of state and Church collaborated in ambitious programs of Protestant or Catholic reform, intended to change the religious consciousness and the behaviour of ordinary men and women. In the belief that specialists in one area of the globe can learn from the questions posed by colleagues working in the same period in other regions, this 2005 volume sets the topic in a wider framework. Thirteen essays, grouped in themes affording parallel views of England and Europe, Tsarist Russia, and Ming China, show a spectrum of possibilities for what early modern governments tried to achieve by regulating religious life, and for how religious communities evolved in new directions, either in keeping with or in spite of official injunctions.

Chapter

PART I: LIVED RELIGION AND OFFICIAL RELIGION

1 The Alternative Moral Universe of Religious Dissenters in Ming-Qing China

Moral orthodoxy and religious pluralism

The eternal mother tradition

The origin of the eternal mother

The eternal mother

Further development of the eternal mother myth

Challenge to state and political authority

Challenge to patriarchal andfamilial authority

Sectarian apocalyptic eschatology and salvationism

Concluding remarks

2 Ecclesiastical Elites and Popular Belief and Practice in Seventeenth-Century Russia

3 The State, the Churches, Sociability, and Folk Belief in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic

Definitions

A public church

Nonconfessional christians

Religious rituals

Categories of believers

Church and state

Centrifugality

A research perspective: the concept of “appropriation”

4 Communal Ritual, Concealed Belief: Layers of Response to the Regulation of Ritual in Reformation England

PART II: FORMS OF RELIGIOUS IDENTITY

5 Spirits of the Penumbra: Deities Worshiped in More Than One Chinese Pantheon

Introduction: chinese orthodoxy

Official religion

Buddhism, Daoism, and the popular religion

Limits of mutual influence among the religions

Spirits of the penumbra

God of the Eastern Peak (Dongyue)

The eight spirits of agriculture (Bbazha)

Guanyin

L¨u Dongbin: The immortal L¨uzu

Summary and conclusions

Gazetteers cited

6 Orthodoxy and Revolt: The Role of Religion in the Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

7 The Huguenot Minority in Early Modern France

8 State Religion and Puritan Resistance in Early Seventeenth-Century England

PART III: THE SOCIAL ARTICULATION OF BELIEF

9 False Miracles and Unattested Dead Bodies: Investigations into Popular Cults in Early Modern Russia

10 Liturgical Rites: The Medium, the Message, the Messenger, and the Misunderstanding

I.The medium

II.The message

A. Intentional aspects

B. Subliminal messages

III.The messenger

IV.The misunderstanding

11 Self-correction and Social Change in the Spanish Counter-Reformation

12 The Disenchantment of Space: Salle Church and the Reformation

The parish of salle

The gentry and salle

The guilds, lights, and private patronage

The poor

The rectors and chaplains of salle

The screen

The stained glass

Salle and the reformation

AN EPILOGUE AT THE PARISH LEVEL

13 Popular Religion and the Reformation in England: A View from Cornwall

Popular religion before the reformation

The reformation

Post-reformation survivals

Conclusion

Selected Annotated Bibliography of Secondary Works

Part I

Part II

Part III

Epilogue

Index

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