MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2013003010
003 DLC
005 20140808081102.0
008 130402t20132013ctu b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013003010
020 $a9780300148794 (hardback)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda
042 $apcc
050 00 $aBX9422.5$b.H37 2013
082 00 $a284/.209$223
084 $aREL093000$aREL033000$aHIS037000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aHart, D. G.$q(Darryl G.)
245 10 $aCalvinism :$ba history /$cD.G. Hart.
264 1 $aNew Haven ;$aLondon:$bYale University Press,$c[2013]
264 4 $c©2013
300 $axii, 339 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This briskly told history of Reformed Protestantism takes these churches through their entire 500-year history--from sixteenth-century Zurich and Geneva to modern locations as far flung as Seoul and São Paulo. D. G. Hart explores specifically the social and political developments that enabled Calvinism to establish a global presence. Hart's approach features significant episodes in the institutional history of Calvinism that are responsible for its contemporary profile. He traces the political and religious circumstances that first created space for Reformed churches in Europe and later contributed to Calvinism's expansion around the world. He discusses the effects of the American and French Revolutions on ecclesiastical establishments as well as nineteenth- and twentieth-century communions, particularly in Scotland, the Netherlands, the United States, and Germany, that directly challenged church dependence on the state. Raising important questions about secularization, religious freedom, privatization of faith, and the place of religion in public life, this book will appeal not only to readers with interests in the history of religion but also in the role of religion in political and social life today"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 309-317) and index.
650 0 $aCalvinism$xHistory.
650 7 $aRELIGION / Christianity / Calvinist.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aRELIGION / History.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aHISTORY / World.$2bisacsh