Description
Book SynopsisComprises nine articles on the Counter-Reformation. This book shows that these reforms were more than a mere reaction against the Protestant challenge to Catholic doctrine and institutions, rather, they also constituted an internal renewal that transformed sixteenth and seventeenth-century Catholic religious life in many complex ways.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements.
Editor's Introduction.
Part I: Definitions: .
1. Catholic Reformation or Counter-Reformation?: Hubert Judin.
2. Counter-Reformation Spirituality: H. Outram Evennett.
3. Was Ignatius Loyola a Church Reformer? How to Look at Early Modern Catholicism: John W. O'Malley.
Part II: Outcomes:.
4. The Counter-Reformation and the People of Catholic Europe: John Bossy.
5. Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and the Early Modern State: A Reassessment: Wolfgang Reinhard.
6. How to Become a Counter-Reformation Saint: Peter Burke.
7. Little Women: Counter-Reformation Misogyny: Alison Weber.
8. The Thirty Years' War and the Failure of Catholicization: Marc R. Forster.
9. 'The Heart Has Its Reasons': Predicaments of Missionary Christianity in Early Colonial Peru: Sabine MacCormack.
Index.
