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

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

by JamesD.Tracy (Editor), Marguerite Ragnow (Editor)

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    Hardcover 2004

    $135.63

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    Paperback 2010

    $36.84
Synopsis

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.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 436
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 25 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0521828252
ISBN 13: 9780521828253
Book Overview: Thirteen 2005 essays show worldwide perspectives of how early modern governments attempted to regulate religious life.

Media Reviews
Review of the hardback: '... a very courageous book.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History
each of these articles is a valuable contribution to the scholarship of early modern religious history. Slavic and East European Journal Francis McLellan, Princeton University
The offering of contrasting yet parallel views of the interaction of religion with public authority should be richly suggestive of new lines of interpretation and inquiry to specialists accustomed to working in one or another of the global areas addressed. Many instructive interconnections and comparisons between and among these worlds are embedded in this collection and are waiting to be teased into view by the attentive reader. The standard of scholarship and presentation throughout is impressive. Renaissance Quarterly Torrance Kirby, McGill University
Author Bio
James Tracy teaches in the History Department of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Emperor Charles V, Impresario of War (Cambridge 2002) and The Political Economy of Merchant Empires: State Power and Global Trade, 1350-1750 (Cambridge, 1991). He is the editor of City Walls: The Urban Enceinte in Global Perspective (Cambridge, 2000) and of the Journal of Early Modern History. Marguerite Ragnow is the Associate Director at the Center for Early Modern History at the University of Minnesota.