The Catholic Germany from the Reformation to

This is the first book length study in English of the development of Catholic identity and a specific German Catholic culture in the 300 years after the Protestant Reformation. Focusing on religious and cultural history, Forster highlights the importance of Catholicism in the German-speaking lands and seeks to integrate the study of Catholic Germany into our understanding of the origins of both modern Germany and modern European Catholicism.

Marc Forster is with the Department of History, Connecticut College.

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Catholic Germany before Trent	p. 12
On the Eve of the Reformation	p. 13
The Reform Movement	p. 16
Religious Practice	p. 20
The Impact of the Reformation	p. 22
The Catholic Response to the Reformation	p. 25
Catholicism at Mid-century	p. 35
The Counter-Reformation Episode: 1570s-1620s	p. 38
The Counter-Reformation as Anti-Protestantism	p. 39
The Jesuits	p. 49
Tridentine Reform, Catholic Reform	p. 54
The Reform of Popular Religion, Confessionalization, and the Creation of Catholic Identity	p. 73
The Thirty Years' War	p. 85
The Edict of Restitution, 1629	p. 87
The Conversion of Protestant Populations	p. 90
The War, Tridentine Reform, and the Rise of Baroque Catholicism	p. 94
The German Church after 1650	p. 104
The Reichskirche	p. 105
Confessionalization after 1650	p. 108
The Parish Clergy	p. 117
The Monasteries and the Orders	p. 128
Baroque Catholicism	p. 144
Structures of Baroque Religiosity	p. 146
A Religious Revival	p. 162
The Role of the Laity	p. 173
Regional Variety in Baroque Catholicism	p. 177
German Catholicism in the late Eighteenth Century	p. 184
Continuities	p. 185
New Developments	p. 187
Joseph II and Josephinism	p. 189
Secularization and the End of the Imperial Church	p. 194
Conclusion	p. 199
Notes	p. 202
Bibliography	p. 246
Index	p. 250
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