European wars of religion: an interdisciplinary reassessment of sources, interpretations, and myths
Object category:
Druckschrift
Publisher:
Ashgate
Ort:
Farnham
Date:
[2016]
Language:
Englisch
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Abstract:
"In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of region, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period. But the interpretation of the European wars of religion still remains constrained by national boundaries, tied into the process of state building as well as nation building. In order to untangle this complex web and more thoroughly interrogate these concepts and assumptions, this volume focusses on terms repeatedly used and misused in public debates such as 'religious violence' and 'holy warfare' within the context of military conflicts labelled 'religious wars'. The chapters not only focus on the role of religion, but also on the emerging state as a driver of the escalation of violence in the age of religious war"--
"In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of region, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period. But the interpretation of the European wars of religion still remains constrained by national boundaries, tied into the process of state building as well as nation building. In order to untangle this complex web and more thoroughly interrogate these concepts and assumptions, this volume focusses on terms repeatedly used and misused in public debates such as 'religious violence' and 'holy warfare' within the context of military conflicts labelled 'religious wars'. The chapters not only focus on the role of religion, but also on the emerging state as a driver of the escalation of violence in the age of religious war"--
"In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of region, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period. But the interpretation of the European wars of religion still remains constrained by national boundaries, tied into the process of state building as well as nation building. In order to untangle this complex web and more thoroughly interrogate these concepts and assumptions, this volume focusses on terms repeatedly used and misused in public debates such as 'religious violence' and 'holy warfare' within the context of military conflicts labelled 'religious wars'. The chapters not only focus on the role of religion, but also on the emerging state as a driver of the escalation of violence in the age of religious war"--
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edited by Wolfgang Palaver, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Harriet Rudolph, University of Regensburg, Germany, Dietmar Regensburger University of Innsbruck, Austria
Includes bibliographical references and index
Includes bibliographical references and index
Inhalt:
Introduction; Religion, war and violence in the Swiss Confederation; Were the French wars of religion really wars of religion?; Religious wars in the Holy Roman Empire? : from the Schmalkaldic War to the Thirty Years War; England's wars of religion : a reassessment; Justifying force in early modern doctrines on self-defence and resistance; Secularization of the holy : a reading of the "wars of religion"; The modern state or the myth of "political violence"; The modern military-humanitarian hybrid state : a response to Paul Dumouchel; Confessional wars and religious violence in Christianity from a theological viewpoint; Religion and violence : the case of wars in former Yugoslavia; The debate about the European wars of religion as a challenge to interdisciplinary cooperation
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