{"product_id":"the-european-wars-of-religion-9781472427113","title":"The European Wars of Religion","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe''s historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of religious change, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period. But the interpretation of the European wars of religion still remains largely defined by national boundaries, tied to specific processes of state building as well as nation building. In order to more thoroughly interrogate these concepts and assumptions, this volume focusses on terms repeatedly used and misused in public debates such as religious violence and holy warfare within the context of military conflicts commonly labelled religious wars. The chapters not only focus on the role of religion, but also on the emerging state as a driver of the escalation of violence in the so-called age of religious war. By using different methodological and theoretical approaches historians, philosopher\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWolfgang Palaver, Harriet Rudolph, and Dietmar Regensburger\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart I Historical Approaches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1 Religion and Violence in the Hussite Wars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePavel Soukup\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2 Religion, War, and Violence in the Swiss Confederation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Lau\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e3 Were the French Wars of Religion Really Wars of Religion?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhilip Benedict\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e4 Religious Wars in the Holy Roman Empire? From the Schmalkaldic War to the Thirty Years War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarriet Rudolph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e5 England’s Wars of Religion: A Reassessment\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCharles W. A. Prior\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e6 Justifying Force in Early Modern Doctrines on Self-defence and Resistance\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuise Schorn-Schütte\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II Approaches from Philosophy and Theology\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7 Secularization of the Holy: A Reading of the ‘Wars of Religion’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWilliam T. Cavanaugh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e8 The Modern State or the Myth of ‘Political Violence’\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaul Dumouchel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e9 The Modern Military–Humanitarian Hybrid State: A Response to Paul Dumouchel\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBruce Ward\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e10 Confessional Wars and Religious Violence in Christianity from a Theological Viewpoint\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRalf Miggelbrink\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e11 Religion and Violence: The Case of Wars in the Former Yugoslavia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJanez Juhant\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e12 The Debate About the European Wars of Religion as a Challenge to Interdisciplinary Cooperation\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWolfgang Palaver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019903172951,"sku":"9781472427113","price":142.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472427113.jpg?v=1750781670","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-european-wars-of-religion-9781472427113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}