Author : Jesse Spohnholz
Publisher : University of Delaware
ISBN 13 : 1611490359
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)
Book Synopsis The Tactics of Toleration by : Jesse Spohnholz
Download or read book The Tactics of Toleration written by Jesse Spohnholz and published by University of Delaware. This book was released on 2010-12-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tactics of Toleration examines the preconditions and limits of toleration during an age in which Europe was sharply divided along religious lines. During the Age of Religious Wars, refugee communities in borderland towns like the Rhineland city of Wesel were remarkably religiously diverse and culturally heterogeneous places. Examining religious life from the perspective of Calvinists, Lutherans, Mennonites and Catholics, Jesse Spohnholz examines how residents dealt with this pluralism during an age of deep religious conflict and intolerance. Based on sources that range from theological treatises to financial records, from marriage registries to testimonies before secular and ecclesiastical courts, Spohnholz's book offers new insights into the strategies that ordinary people developed for managing religious pluralism during the Age of Religious Wars.