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The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation

By Robert Whiting

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
1989
ISBN
9780521356060, 9780511522864, 0521424399, 0521356067, 051152286X, 9780521424394
LCC
BR377 .W48 1989
Open Library ID
OL2051518M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2367203 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
Pages
314\314
Topic
Religion
DPI
300
Time added
2011-04-28 18:43:47

Description

The religious revolution known as the 'Reformation' must rank among the most crucial and transforming events in English history. Yet its original reception by the English people remains largely obscure. Did they welcome the innovations - or did they resist? By what internal motivations were their responses determined? And by what external influences were their attitudes shaped? These are the key issues explored by Robert Whiting in this major investigation, based primarily on original research in the south-west. Dr Whiting's controversial conclusion is that for most of the population the Reformation was less a conversion from Catholicism to Protestantism than a transition from religious commitment to religious passivity or even indifference.

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