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Religious identity in an early Reformation community: Augsburg, 1517 to 1555
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ISBN: 1282398504 9786612398506 9047442431 9789047442431 9789004166738 9004166734 9781282398504 6612398507 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Debate over the usefulness of the confessionalization paradigm for understanding how Europeans responded to religious differences resulting from the Reformation has obscured people's experiences during the early years of reform. Based on interrogations recorded in Augsburg, Germany, in the first half of the sixteenth century, the compelling portraits of individual believers presented in this book provide a rare insight into the lives of ordinary people during one of the most controversial periods in religious history. Speaking about their faith and encounters with others in their own words, they rephrase the debate in terms of contemporary experiences. The resulting study challenges previous assumptions about the importance of belief in constructing religious identities and reveals the potential for accommodation amidst conflict.

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