Sacred Boundaries Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early Modern France

by Keith P. Luria

Religious rivalry and persecution have bedeviled so many societies that confessional difference often seems an unavoidable source of conflict. Sacred Boundaries challenges this assumption by examining relations between the Catholic majority and Protestant minority in seventeenth-century France as a case study of two religious groups constructing confessional difference and coexistence. The book studies bi-confessional communities and families, gender...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813214114
• ISBN13: 9780813214115
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Catholic University of America Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"