| Confessional Identity in East-Central Europe Contributor(s): Craciun, Maria (Author), Ghitta, Ovidiu (Author) |
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ISBN: 0754603202 ISBN-13: 9780754603207 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $161.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2002 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Denominations - Religion | History - History | Eastern Europe - General |
| Dewey: 280.094 |
| Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.09 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book considers the emergence of a remarkable diversity of churches in east-central Europe between the 16th and 18th centuries, which included Catholic, Orthodox, Hussite, Lutheran, Bohemian Brethren, Calvinist, anti-Trinitarian and Greek Catholic communities. Contributors assess the extraordinary multiplicity of confessions in the Transylvanian principality, as well as the range of churches in Poland, Bohemia, Moravia and Hungary. Essays focus on how each church sought to establish its own identity in a crowded market-place of religious ideas, and on the extent to which printed literature brokered the popular reception of religious doctrine. The volume addresses how ideas about religion spread within the largely illiterate societies of east-central Europe, especially through catechisms, and how printed literature was used to instruct congregations about doctrinal truth, to encourage the faithful to pious devotions, and to shape the religious life and identity of local communities. |