The Gods of the City: Protestantism and Religious Culture in Strasbourg, 1870-1914

2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 257-259
Author(s):  
A. Carrol
Keyword(s):  
Religious Culture ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Discipline and Ignorance in Calvin’s Geneva

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
SCOTT M. MANETSCH
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
John Calvin ◽  
Religious Institution ◽  
Early Modern Europe ◽  
Public Morality ◽  
Modern Europe ◽  
Disciplinary Records ◽  
The City

Abstract: Founded by John Calvin in 1542, the Genevan consistory was a disciplinary court made up of pastors and lay elders that oversaw public morality and enforced right belief in the city church. Although scholars of early modern Europe have explored in detail the various functions of this religious institution, inadequate attention has been paid to its important pedagogical role. This essay explores the various strategies that Calvin’s consistory employed to correct religious ignorance and inculcate Protestant belief among the city inhabitants. Based on quantitative analysis of extant Genevan disciplinary records from 1542 to 1609, it will be argued that Calvin’s consistory was largely successful in reshaping Geneva’s religious culture and imparting a deeper understanding of reformed Christianity to many children and adults.

scholarly journals Steinhoff (Anthony J.), The Gods of the City. Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg 1870-1914

2010 ◽  
pp. 465-469
Author(s):  
François Igersheim
Keyword(s):  
Religious Culture ◽  
The City

scholarly journals Nāyaka Chefs-d’œuvre Structure and Iconography of the Śrīvilliputtūr Tēr 1

1970 ◽  
Vol 77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Parthiban Rajukalidoss
Keyword(s):  
Present Article ◽  
17Th Century ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Main Theme ◽  
Deep South ◽  
Peninsular India ◽  
Rare Elements ◽  
The City ◽  
The Temple

Śrīvilliputtūr is an important base of Visnuism in the deep south of peninsular India. The area round is full of archaeological monuments relating to Śiva and the folk divinities of the Little Tradition, the ‘Ciṟukuṭiyōr’. With the advent of Āḻvārs in the 7th-9th centuries CE (e.g. Nammāḻvār, Periyāḻvār, Āṇṭāḷ and Maturakavi), the landscape was thoroughly reset with temples of Viṣṇu; Tiruttaṅkal to the Tāmiraparaṇi basin (Navatiruppatis) being the nodal zone. The present article traces the Vaiṣṇava phase of Śrīvilliputtūr based on literary and epigraphical sources. The major concentration is on the massive wooden vehicle of Āṇṭāḷ and Vaṭapatraśāyī, called tēr. The structure and iconography of the tēr is the main theme for investigation occasionally throwing light on the changing phase of religious culture from the 7th to the 17th century. The chefs-d’œuvre from the tēr are examined in detail as they seem to include rare elements hitherto unreported. The article is appended with a plan of the city to understand the importance that the temple and the ter command within the organization of the Himmelreich. The photographic illustrations present an illuminating peep into the structure and iconography of the temple-car. The present temple-car is a remodeling of an old one that was demolished 100 years ago.

scholarly journals Popular Protests, the Public Sphere and Court Catholicism. The Insults to the Chapel of the Spanish Embassy in London, 1685-1688

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 007
Author(s):  
Cristina Bravo Lozano
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Foreign Affairs ◽  
Religious Violence ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Different Parts

The coronation of James II, a Catholic, brought about a profound political change in religious matters in the British Isles. At court, a Catholicizing process was introduced, supported by the monarch and the European diplomats who opened chapels in different parts of the city. However, this missionary effort had an unequal reception and caused a popular rejection against this new religious culture, leading to demonstrations of a markedly confessional nature. The chapel of the Spanish Embassy suffered the insults of the crowd on two occasions: the main consequence of these altercations was its destruction during the revolution of 1688. Although, superficially, this protest movement can be interpreted as anti-Catholic, it must be understood in a political context. With each new royal ruling, the protests gained strength until finally exploding after the flight of the King to France. This paper focuses on the popular protests and the explicit remonstrance of English Protestants against these Catholic altars and places of worship, with particular emphasis on the residence of Pedro Ronquillo. This study looks at popular protests and the reaction of the authorities, perceptions of the English and the use of the public sphere, the reception and dissemination of news and the impact of popular religious violence on foreign affairs in this crucial phase of English and European history.

On the limits of the Carolingian renaissance

1977 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
pp. 51-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janet L. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Religious Culture ◽  
City Of God ◽  
Personal Renewal ◽  
History Of ◽  
Miracle Story ◽  
The City ◽  
Christian History

Einhard tells us that Charlemagne had a special liking for ‘those books of St Augustine calledThe City of God’. If only he had told us why. Did Charlemagne demand readings from book 5 on the happy Christian emperors? Or was he, as Ladner suggests, particularly attracted by ‘the idea of a society embracing earth and heaven, a society which a man could join through personal renewal’? If Ladner is right, then, he tells us, we should talk not of a Carolingian renaissance—‘secondary classicising features notwithstanding’—but of a Carolingian reform ‘as just one phase in the unfolding history of the realisation of the Reform idea in Christian history’ and specifically ‘an attempt to recreate the religious culture of the fourth and fifth centuries’. ButisLander right about Charlemagne? I have my doubts: perhaps what he really enjoyed most was book 22’s meaty chapter on the resurrection of the flesh or its rattling good miracle-story.

Conclusion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Mayall Brasher
Keyword(s):  
Twelfth Century ◽  
Urban Society ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Religious Culture ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Late Medieval ◽  
Ecclesiastical Reform ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
City States ◽  
The City

The conclusions chapter summarizes the findings of the earlier chapters and reiterates the claim that throughout northern Italy, beginning as early as the twelfth century, as result of the pious impulse of an emerging class of cittadini, the focus of religious charitable activity was targeted on specific localized communities resulting in the founding of small, community-cantered hospitals. Over the following three centuries management of these hospitals evolved from grass-roots initiative of the community, through ecclesiastical reform and finally was appropriated by the civic government of the city-states. This evolution mirrored changes in urban society during the period and provides and excellent lens through which to view late medieval Italian society and religious culture.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document