Religious Cultures in the Early Modern World

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Few serious scholars now doubt the central importance of religious attitudes, beliefs and values for the ways early modern people organised their social, political and cultural lives, or the potency of religion, both as a source of social cohesion, and a force for social conflict. Over the past few decades, a traditional preoccupation with ‘ecclesiastical history’ and the fortunes of institutions has given way to a more integrated approach to the belief-systems, Christian and non-Christian, that structured the early modern world, and religious history has been enriched by its engagement with the approaches and methodologies of other disciplines. This series is a showcase for writing on all aspects of the social, cultural and political history of religion in the early modern period. Its remit stretches broadly over time, from the early fifteenth to the later eighteenth centuries, and extends widely geographically, to encompass both European and non-European societies.

Submissions are invited from established scholars, as well as advanced PhD and post-doctoral candidates, working in the field of ‘religious history’ in its most inclusive sense. Works accepted into the series will be scholarly monographs (80–100,000 words) of high quality and originality, which, while they may focus on particular themes, persons or locations, will demonstrate an ability to address wider themes and concerns in this exciting and vibrant sub-discipline of historical writing.

Proposals should be sent (in hard copy and by electronic attachment) to one of the series editors: Dr Fernando Cervantes, Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, 13 Woodland Road, Bristol BS8 1TB, UK (f.cervantes@bristol.ac.uk); Prof. Peter Marshall, Department of History, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK (p.marshall@warwick.ac.uk); Prof. Philip Soergel, Department of History, University of Maryland, 2115 Francis Scott Key Hall, College Park, MD 20742-7315, USA (psoergel@umd.edu). The editors will require a detailed proposal of at least 8–10 pages (including chapter outlines), along with the text of a sample chapter. It is envisaged that contracts will be offered to the most promising authors on this basis.

Readership

The series will have a wide appeal to scholars working in many areas of History, as well as in the related disciples of Art History, Literature, Theology and Religious Studies. While the volumes will be scholarly works of primary research, they should be accessible to able undergraduates as well as postgraduate researchers and academics.

Editorial board

Dr Fernando Cervantes is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Bristol. His main research interests focus on the religious, cultural and intellectual history of early modern Spain and Spanish America. He is the author of The Devil in the New World: the Impact of Diabolism in New Spain (1994) and co-editor of Spiritual Encounters: Interactions between Christianity and Native Religions in Colonial America (1999). He is currently working on an intellectual study of Miguel de Cervantes and, with Dr Andrew Redden, on a project entitled “The Celestial and the Fallen: Angels and Demons in Spanish America ” funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

Professor Peter Marshall is Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK. He has published extensively on the religious and cultural history of early modern England, and his books include The Catholic Priesthood and the English Reformation (1994), Beliefs and the Dead in Reformation England (2002), and Religious Identities in Henry VIII’s England (2006).

Professor Philip Soergel teaches early-modern history at the University of Maryland, College Park. He has published widely on the religious and cultural history of early modern Germany. His books include Wondrous in His Saints: Counter-Reformation Propaganda in Bavaria (1993) and the forthcoming Miracles and the Protestant Imagination.

Published titles

• Diabolism in Colonial Peru, 1560–1750
• Possession, Puritanism and Print : Darrell, Harsnett, Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Exorcism Controversy
• Visions of an Unseen World : Ghost Beliefs and Ghost Stories in Eighteenth-Century England

Forthcoming titles

• The Religious Culture of Marian England

  David Loades

  (June 2009)

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