Basel's Rural Pastors as Mediators of Confessional and Social Discipline

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ID9645812
AuthorsAmy Nelson Burnett (0009-0000-5090-3847, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume33
Issue1
Pages67-85
Publication date2000-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCentral European History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-9389 • E-ISSN: 1569-1616
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1163/15691610052927628
OpenAlexW2107297635
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited23

Over the last two decades historians of early modern Europe have adopted the paradigm of confessionalization to describe the religious, political, and cultural changes that occurred in the two centuries following the Reformation. 1 As an explanatory model confessionalization has often been portrayed as the religious and ecclesiastical parallel to the secular and political process of social discipline, as formulated by Gerhard Oestreich. 2 In its simplest form, the process of confessional and social discipline is depicted as hierarchical and unidirectional: the impulse to discipline and control came from the secular and ecclesiastical authorities, and the laity, particularly the peasants at the bottom of the hierarchy, had little possibility of exerting counterpressures on those seeking to shape their beliefs and behavior. The inevitable result of the disciplinary process was the gradual suppression of popular culture and the imposition of new standards of belief and behavior on the subjects of the territorial state

Confessional · Discipline · Hierarchy · Impulse (physics · Political science · Politics · Social control · Social hierarchy · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science · European Political History Analysis · Historical Legal Studies and Society · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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