Religion as an agent of change : : crusades - reformation - pietism / / edited by Per Ingesman.

• Superior document: Brill's series in church history and religious culture, v. 72
• TeilnehmendeR: Ingesman, Per.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's Series in Church History 72.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (291 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The Long March of Religious History: Where have We Travelled since the Sixties, and Why? /; Pope Innocent III and the Crusades Revisited /; Caffaro of Genoa and the Motives of Early Crusaders /; Opening up the World and the Minds: The Crusades as an Engine of Change in Missionary Conceptions /; What is Lutheran Confessional Culture? /; The Creation of a Calvinist Identity in the Reformation Period /; Changing Identities in the English Reformation /; Piety or Pietism? A Comparison of Early Modern Danish and Dutch Examples of Interconfessional Religiosity /; The Impact of Pietism on Culture and Society in Germany /; Crusading, Reformation and Pietism in Nineteenth-Century North Atlantic Evangelicalism /; Religion as an Agent of Change – Concluding Remarks /; Index /
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9004303731
• ISSN: 1572-4107
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Per Ingesman.

Throughout the history of mankind religion has been a creative and innovative factor of great strength, able to change societies, create new cultures, and shape strong identities. In Religion as an Agent of Change leading historians and Church historians discuss religion as a driving force in historical development on the basis of three particular cases from the history of Christianity in Western Europe: the Crusades, the Reformation, and Pietism. The empirical case studies in the book present important results and viewpoints from new research in these three historical phenomena, to a large degree undertaken in our own generation, thus establishing a solid foundation for further scholarly discussions about the role of the Christian religion as a driving force in history. Contributors are: Arne Bugge Amundsen, Ole Peter Grell, Martin H. Jung, Thomas Kaufmann, Fred van Lieburg, Christoph T. Maier, Peter Marshall, Hugh McLeod, Jonathan Phillips, Felicitas Schmieder, and John Wolffe.