Religious Diversity in Early Modern Europe

Inhoud

This course focuses on the (mainly lay) initiatives for forms of religious community as a complement to, or alternative for, the existing Churches from the sixteenth into the early nineteenth century. Although some of these groups mainly offered a combination of conviviality and edification, as the seventeenth century progressed most of them came to embody criticism against the religio-political realities of the ancien régime. The most extreme experimented with alternative forms of communal life, often legitimated through prophetic visions. The course will focus on the interplay between church/state establishment This course focuses on the (mainly lay) initiatives for forms of religious community as a complement to, or alternative for, the existing Churches from the sixteenth into the early nineteenth century. Although some of these groups mainly offered a combination of conviviality and edification, as the seventeenth century progressed most of them came to embody criticism against the religio-political realities of the ancien régime. The most extreme experimented with alternative forms of communal life, often legitimated through prophetic visions. The course will focus on the interplay between church/state establishment

Onderwijsvorm

Workshop

College-uren

1x3 hours per week.

Studie-materiaal

Selection of articles available in the library.

Toetsvorm

endpaper en presentation

Kosten

ca. € 50,--