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Author Forster, Marc R.

Title Catholic revival in the age of the baroque : religious identity in southwest Germany, 1550-1750 / Marc R. Forster.

Publication Info. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 268 pages) : 4 maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New studies in European history
New studies in European history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-256) and index.
Summary Many studies of the subject of 'Catholic identity' seek to credit rulers and church leaders with creating and enforcing religious identity in Germany 'from above'. In contrast, this study argues that there were important and specific local and religious reasons why people came to consider themselves loyal Catholics.
Contents 1. Counter-Reformation offensive, 1550-1650. Confessionalization under Austrian leadership. Tridentine reform in the Bishopric of Constance. Catholic reform under local leadership -- 2. Sacral landscape and pilgrimage piety. Sacral landscape. Pilgrimage piety -- 3. Religious practice. Liturgical year and everyday religious experience. Rise of individual devotion -- 4. Clericalism in the villages. Clericalism and communalism. Clericalism and anti-clericalism. Professionalization of the parish clergy -- 5. Communal church in German Catholicism. Communal church. Priest in the village -- 6. Reformers and intermediaries, 1650-1750. Reform and confessionalization. Intermediaries. Popular Catholicism, local religion and regional patterns.
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Subject Catholic Church -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 16th century.
Catholic Church.
Southern Germany.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Catholic Church -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 17th century.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Catholic Church -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 18th century.
Chronological Term 18th century
Subject Catholic Church. -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 16th century.
Catholic Church. -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 17th century.
Catholic Church. -- Germany, Southern -- History -- 18th century.
Église catholique -- Allemagne (Sud) -- Histoire -- 16e siècle.
Église catholique -- Allemagne (Sud) -- Histoire -- 17e siècle.
Église catholique -- Allemagne (Sud) -- Histoire -- 18e siècle.
Germany, Southern -- Church history -- 18th century.
Church history.
Chronological Term 1500-1799
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Church history.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Forster, Marc R. Catholic revival in the age of the baroque. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521780446 (DLC) 00036305 (OCoLC)43811114
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