Rural Organization and Receptivity to Protestantism in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7867770 |
|---|---|
| Authors | R L Hopcroft (0000-0001-9629-7993, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 158 |
| Publication date | 1997-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8294 • E-ISSN: 1468-5906 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1387550 |
| OpenAlex | W2330607270 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 18 |
In this paper, I hypothesize and show evidence for a causal link between local land use systems and popular receptivity to ascetic, rationalist religions in sixteenth-century Germany, France, the Netherlands, and England. Rationalist religions typically received popular support in regions characterized by individual property rights in land and little communal control over agriculture. I argue that this social organization of agriculture gave rise to individualistic value systems, which had an affinity with rationalist, ascetic belief systems
Agriculture · Archaeology · Asceticism · Birth control · Epistemology · Individualism · Political science · Property (philosophy) · Protestantism · Receptivity · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Value (mathematics) · Demography · Historical Economic and Legal Thought · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
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| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2019 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |