MARC Record from Library of Congress

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008 090309s2009 enka b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780754668831 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aBV4627.B6$bL64 2009
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100 1 $aLoetz, Francisca.
240 10 $aMit Gott handeln.$lEnglish
245 10 $aDealings with God :$bfrom blasphemers in early modern Zurich to a cultural history of religiousness /$cFrancisca Loetz ; translated by Rosemary Selle.
260 $aFarnham, England ;$aBurlington, VT :$bAshgate Pub. Ltd.,$cc2009.
300 $aviii, 326 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
440 0 $aSt. Andrews studies in Reformation history
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aReligion in early modern history : an approach by way of blasphemers in Zurich -- Formulating the question -- Research situation -- History of religion and Religiousness -- Blasphemy as a special case -- Blasphemy and history of crime -- History of Zurich -- History of blasphemy : five theses on a research deficit -- Interpretative and methodological approaches -- Explanatory models for early modern history -- Blasphemy as a key to religion in cultural history -- Blasphemy as a textually transmitted speech act -- The example of Zurich -- The time and place under study -- The offence of blasphemy in early modern Zurich -- The sanctioning of blasphemy -- Normsetting -- How the law and the secular authorities defined blasphemy -- How theology and the church defined blasphemy -- How the authorities applied the norms -- The supervisory obligation of officials and citizens -- Assessment of blasphemers -- Blasphemers : mentally deranged or morally responsible -- Sentencing practice -- Blasphemy as the object of horizontal social control -- How witnesses reacted to blasphemy -- Motives for reporting blasphemers -- Out-of-court settlements in cases of blasphemy -- Blasphemy in the context of social action -- Blasphemy as insubordination -- Blasphemy as insult -- Blasphemy expressing a conflict of honour -- Cursing : verbal magic or insult -- Blasphemy as an element of sociability -- Blaspheming God as a social and situation-specific disposition -- The pleasures of provocation -- The blasphemer as a person -- Blasphemy as an expression of (un)belief -- The religious knowledge of blasphemers -- The pleasures of disputation -- Dealing with dogmatics -- Questioning ancient paradoxes -- Questioning new paradoxes -- Struggling with God -- Rebelling against God -- Pre-modern atheism -- Blasphemy and images of God -- Blasphemy in Zurich : historical change and confessional comparison -- Blasphemy in Zurich : historical change -- The offence of blasphemy in confessional comparison : a perspective on Lucerne -- Outcomes and outlook : from the blasphemers of Zurich to a cultural history of religiousness.
650 0 $aBlasphemy$zSwitzerland$zZurich$xHistory.
650 0 $aBlasphemy$xHistory.
651 0 $aZurich (Switzerland)$xChurch history.
650 0 $aOffenses against religion$zSwitzerland$zZurich$xHistory.
650 0 $aOffenses against religion$xHistory.