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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2022
      September 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108775434
      9781108477970
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108775434
      Dimensions:
      (254 x 178 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.8kg, 326 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, History of Religion, European History after 1450, History, Religion, European Studies
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    Three basic forces dominated sixteenth-century religious life. Two polarized groups, Protestant and Catholic reformers, were shaped by theological debates, over the nature of the church, salvation, prayer, and other issues. These debates articulated critical, group-defining oppositions. Bystanders to the Catholic-Protestant competition were a third force. Their reactions to reformers were violent, opportunistic, hesitant, ambiguous, or serendipitous, much the way social historians have described common people in the Reformation for the last fifty years. But in an ecology of three forces, hesitations and compromises were natural, not just among ordinary people, but also, if more subtly, among reformers and theologians. In this volume, Christopher Ocker offers a constructive and nuanced alternative to the received understanding of the Reformation. Combining the methods of intellectual, cultural, and social history, his book demonstrates how the Reformation became a hybrid movement produced by a binary of Catholic and Protestant self-definitions, by bystanders to religious debate, and by the hesitations and compromises made by all three groups during the religious controversy.

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    ‘The nine chapters that form the body of this book should not be read as a comprehensive guide to the hybrid Reformation, but as a series of forays intended to help historians discern third forces amid the noise and tumult of confrontational polemics … Ocker’s concluding essay offers a splendid guide to the conceptual underpinnings of hybridity, the historiography of ambiguity and precarity, and the poverty of interpretive paradigms, such as confessionalization theory, that fail to account for it.’

    David M. Luebke Source: Journal of Modern History

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