:From Blasphemers in Early Modern Zurich to a Cultural History of Religiousness
/ Francisca Loetz
; translated by Rosemary Selle
Farnham, England ;Burlington, VT
: Ashgate Pub. Ltd.
, 2009.
viii, 326 p.
: , ill
(St. Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
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Religion in early modern history : an approach by way of blasphemers in Zurich - Formulating the question - Research situation - History of religion and Religiousness - Blasphemy as a special case - Blasphemy and history of crime - History of Zurich - History of blasphemy : five theses on a research deficit - Interpretative and methodological approaches - Explanatory models for early modern history - Blasphemy as a key to religion in cultural history - Blasphemy as a textually transmitted speech act - The example of Zurich - The time and place under study - The offence of blasphemy in early modern Zurich - The sanctioning of blasphemy - Normsetting - How the law and the secular authorities defined blasphemy - How theology and the church defined blasphemy - How the authorities applied the norms - The supervisory obligation of officials and citizens - Assessment of blasphemers - Blasphemers : mentally deranged or morally responsible - Sentencing practice - Blasphemy as the object of horizontal social control - How witnesses reacted to blasphemy - Motives for reporting blasphemers -- Out-of-court settlements in cases of blasphemy - Blasphemy in the context of social action - Blasphemy as insubordination - Blasphemy as insult - Blasphemy expressing a conflict of honour - Cursing : verbal magic or insult - Blasphemy as an element of sociability - Blaspheming God as a social and situation-specific disposition - The pleasures of provocation - The blasphemer as a person - Blasphemy as an expression of (un)belief - The religious knowledge of blasphemers - The pleasures of disputation - Dealing with dogmatics - Questioning ancient paradoxes - Questioning new paradoxes - Struggling with God - Rebelling against God - Pre-modern atheism - Blasphemy and images of God - Blasphemy in Zurich : historical change and confessional comparison - Blasphemy in Zurich : historical change - The offence of blasphemy in confessional comparison : a perspective on Lucerne - Outcomes and outlook : from the blasphemers of Zurich to a cultural history of religiousness
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Blasphemy - Switzerland - Zurich - History
Blasphemy - History
Zurich (Switzerland) - Church history
Offenses against religion - Switzerland - Zurich - History