Sacred boundaries : religious coexistence and conflict in early-modern France / Keith P. Luria.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Luria, Keith P.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Relations--Huguenots.

Catholic Church.

Huguenots--Relations--Catholic Church.

Huguenots.

France--Church history--17th century.

France.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (400 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Religious rivalry and persecution have bedeviled so many societies that confessional difference often seems an unavoidable source of conflict.Sacred Boundaries challenges this assumption by examining relations between the Catholic majority and Protestant minority in seventeenth-century France as a case study of two religious groups constructing.

Contents:

Protestants, Catholics, and the state : constructing communal coexistence

Catholic missions and the construction of the confessional boundary

Separated by death? : cemeteries, burials, and confessional boundaries

Divided families : the confessional boundary in the household

Markers of difference : heroines, Amazons, and the confessional boundary

Matters of conscience : conversion, relapse, and the confessional boundary.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-343) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8132-1619-2

OCLC:

646786254