A Companion To The Reformation World

• Presents Catholic Renewal as a continuum of the Protestant Reformation.
  
• Examines Reformation in Eastern and Western Europe, Asia and the Americas.
  
• Takes a broad, inclusive approach – covering both traditional topics and cutting-edge areas of debate.

R. Po-chia Hsia is Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University. He previously taught at Columbia, Cornell, University of Massachusetts, and New York University. He has received fellowships from the United States and Germany, and has held visiting professorships and research positions in Germany and the Netherlands. Elected in 2000 to the Academia Sinica (Taiwan), he is currently researching the history of Sino-European relations from the 16th to the 18th centuries. His books include Society and Religion in Munster 1535–1618 (1984), Social Discipline in the Reformation. Central Europe 1550–1750 (1989), and The World of Catholic Renewal 1540–1770 (1998).

Introduction: The Reformation and its Worlds: R. Po-chia Hsia (Pennsylvania State University).

Part I: On the Eve of the Reformation:.

1. Dissent and Heresy: Euan Cameron (Union Theological Seminary in New York City).

2. Society and Piety: Larissa Taylor (Colby College).

Part II: The Reformation in the Holy Roman Empire:.

3. Martin Luther and the German Nation: Robert Kolb (Concordia Seminary, Saint Louis).

4. The Peasants’ War: Tom Scott (University of Liverpool).

5. Radical Religiosity in the German Reformation: Hans-Jürgen Goertz (University of Hamburg, Germany).

6. The Reformation in German-Speaking Switzerland: Kaspar von Greyerz (University of Basel).

Part III: The European Reformation:.

7. Calvin and Geneva: Robert M. Kingdon (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

8. Reform in the Low Countries: Joke Spaans (University of Amsterdam).

9. The Reformation in England to 1603: Christopher Haigh (University of Oxford).

10. The Religious Wars in France: Barbara B. Diefendorf (Boston University).

11. The Italian Reformation: Massimo Firpo (University of Turin).

12. The Reformation in Bohemia and Poland: James R. Palmitessa (Western Michigan State University).

13. Old and New Faith in Hungary, Turkish Hungary, and Transylvania: István György Tóth (Central European University, Budapest).

Part IV: Catholic Renewal and Confessional Struggles:.

14. The Society of Jesus: John O’Malley (Weston Jesuit School of Theology, Cambridge, MA).

15. Female Religious Orders: Amy E. Leonard (Georgetown University, Washington, DC).

16. The Inquisition: William Monter (Northwestern).

17. The Thirty Years’ War: Johannes Burkhardt (University of Augsburg, Germany).

18. Spain and Portugal: José Pedro Paiva (University of Coimbra).

19. Parish Communities, Civil War, and Religious Conflict in England: Dan Beaver (Pennsylvania State University).

Part V: Christian Europe and the World:.

20. Religion and Church in Early Latin America: Kevin Terraciano (University of California, Los Angeles).

21. Compromise: India: Ines G. Županov (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris).

22. Promise: China: R. Po-chia Hsia (Pennsylvania State University).

23. A Mission Interrupted: Japan: Michael Cooper (retired, formerly of Sophia University, Tokyo).

Part VI: Structures of the Reformation World:.

24. The New Parish: Bruce Gordon (University of St Andrews).

25. Making Peace: Olivier Christin (University of Lyon-2).

26. Magic and Witchcraft: James A. Sharpe (University of York).

27. Martyrs and Saints: Brad S. Gregory (Stanford University).

28. Jews in a Divided Christendom: Miriam Bodiam (Pennsylvania State University).

29. Co-existence, Conflict, and the Practice of Toleration: Benjamin J. Kaplan (University College London).

Bibliography.

Index