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Divided by faith : religious conflict and the practice of toleration in early modern Europe /

From the Publisher: As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less p...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kaplan, Benjamin J. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, MA : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press, [2007]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of maps and illustrations
  • Introduction
  • 1: Obstacles
  • 1: Holy zeal: Christian piety in the confessional age
  • 2: Corpus christianum: community as religious body
  • 3: Flashpoints: the events that triggered violence
  • 4: One faith, one law, one king: how religion and politics intersected
  • 2: Arrangements
  • 5: Gold coin: ecumenical experiments
  • 6: Crossing borders: traveling to attend services
  • 7: Fictions of privacy: house chapels
  • 8: Sharing churches, sharing power: official pluralism
  • 3: Interactions
  • 9: Friend to the person: individual and group relations
  • 10: Transgressions: conversion and intermarriage
  • 11: Infidels: Muslims and Jews in Christian Europe
  • 4: Changes
  • 12: Enlightenment?: the "rise of toleration" reconsidered
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.