Religion and the Early Modern State: Views

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.

Preface
Introduction
Lived Religion and Official Religion
The alternative moral universe of religious dissenter in Ming-Qing China
Ecclesiastical elites and popular belief and practice in seventeenth-century Russia
The state, the churches, sociability, and folk belief in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic
Communal ritual, concealed beliefs: layers of response to the regulation of ritual in Reformation England
Forms of Religious Identity
Spirits of the Penumbra: deities worshipped in more than one Chinese Pantheon
Orthodoxy and revolt: the role of religion in the seventeenth-century Ukrainian Uprising against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
The Huguenot minority in early modern France
State religion and Puritan resistance in early seventeenth-century England
The Social Articulation of Belief
False miracles and unattested dead bodies: investigations into popular cults in Early Modern Russia
Liturgical rites: the medium, the message, the messenger, and misunderstanding
Self correction and social change in the Spanish Counter-Reformation
The disenchantment of space: Salle church and the Reformation Eamon Duffy
An Epilogue at the Parish Level
Popular religion and the reformation in England: a view from Cornwall
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Religion and the Early Modern State: Views from China, Russia, and the West

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