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Reformation of the senses : the paradox of religious belief and practice in Germany / Jacob M. Baum.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baum, Jacob M., author.
- Series:
- Studies in sensory history.
- Studies in sensory history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Senses and sensation--Religious aspects--Christianity--History.
- Senses and sensation.
- Senses and sensation--Germany--History.
- Reformation--Germany.
- Reformation.
- Germany--Church history.
- Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (245 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- Through careful examination of religious beliefs and practices in the German-speaking world from approximately 1400 to 1600, this text challenges the centuries-old narrative of the transition from late medieval Christianity to Protestantism as a process of 'de-sensualizing' religion.
- Contents:
- Late Medieval worship : a sensory production
- The senses and sacramentality in late Medieval intellectual discourse
- The senses and religious experience in vernacular theology
- The reformation of the senses in early evangelical culture
- Implementing the reformation of the senses in practice
- Thinking with the senses in the Second Reformation.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Previously issued in print: 2018.
- ISBN:
- 9780252050930
- 0252050932
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