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Reformation and the culture of persuasion
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ISBN: 9780521602648 0521602645 0521841755 9780521841757 9780511614613 0511125968 9780511125966 0511125100 9780511125102 0511125593 9780511125591 0511614616 6610202915 9786610202911 1107151430 1280202912 0511199074 0511567375 Year: 2005 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Why did people choose the Reformation? What was it in the evangelical teaching that excited, moved or persuaded them? Andrew Pettegree here tackles these questions directly by re-examining the reasons that moved millions to this decisive and traumatic break with a shared Christian past. He charts the separation from family, friends, and workmates that adherence to the new faith often entailed and the new solidarities that emerged in their place. He explores the different media of conversion through which the Reformation message was communicated and imbibed - the role of drama, sermons, song and the book - and argues that the potency of print can only be understood as working in harmony with more traditional modes of communication. His findings offer a persuasive new answer to the critical question of how the Reformation could succeed as a mass movement in an age before mass literacy.

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