Emancipating Calvin : Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities.

Intro -- Emancipating Calvin: Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword Homage: Raymond.A.Mentzer@consistories.fr -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- Map of Consistory Registers Locations -- Introduction: Emancipating Calvin -- Part 1: Consistories -- 1 Rowdy Refugees and Mischievous Martyrs in Calvin's Geneva -- 2 A "Catholic" Consistory? The Bipartisan Consistorial Court of Echallens in the Vaud (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries) -- 3 The Dancing Calvinists of Montauban: Testing the Boundaries of a Reformed Community in the 1590s in France -- 4 On Consistorial Diversity -- Part 2: Huguenot Culture and History -- 5 A Debated Office: Deacons in the Huguenot Church, 1560-1660 -- 6 Lay Leadership in the Reformed Communities during the Huguenot Revolution, 1559-1563 -- 7 The Last Wishes of the Orangeois -- 8 The Practice of Ecclesiastical Discipline in the Huguenot Refugee Church of Amsterdam, 1650-1700 -- Part 3: Ritual and Worship -- 9 Reading the Bible in Sixteenth-century France -- 10 Domesticating God: Reformed Homes and the Relocation of Sacred Space -- 11 The Huguenots and Marks of Honor and Distinction in the Parish Church and Reformed Temple -- Bibliography of Raymond A. Mentzer's Published Works to Date -- Volume Bibliography -- Index.

The essays in Emancipating Calvin: Culture and Confessional Identity in Francophone Reformed Communities demonstrate the vitality and variety of Francophone Reformed communities, examining how local contexts shaped the implementation of reforming ideas emanating from John Calvin and Geneva.

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