JEMC Volume 12, Issue 1
26 May 2025
Volume 12, issue on of the Journal of Early Modern Christianity is a special issue on Conversions and Lutheranism in Early Modern Central Europe.
The contributions to this special issue consider conversions to Lutheranism using diverse religious, gender and social categories in order to draw attention to the multifariousness of the conversion experience in Lutheran contexts. They highlight the importance of conversions, both to Lutheran secular and religious authorities, and to the social and religious communities to which converts sought affiliation. The paper of REFORC Paper Award Winner Mirjam Wulff is also included.
Guest Editors: Benedikt Brunner, Martin Christ and Richard Kirwan.
Contributions
Power and Patronage: Lutheran Revocation Sermons in Germany, 1600–1740
Martin Christ
“Der verkehrte und doch widerbekehrte Thomas”: Ambiguities of Jewish Conversions and Christian Hebraism in Nuremberg around 1700
“Der verkehrte und doch widerbekehrte Thomas”: Ambiguities of Jewish Conversions and Christian Hebraism in Nuremberg around 1700
From Proselytus to Exul Christi: Networks, Brokers and Religious Identity in the Reconversion of Christian Fischer, 1627
Converting Nuns: Religious Diversity in Convent Congregations during the Long Seventeenth Century
Marjorie Elizabeth Plummer
Lutheran Conversion and Confessional Contact in Augsburg
Emily Fisher Gray
Sambo’s Worlds: Lutheran Baptismal Sermons and Global Knowledge in the German-Speaking Lands of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Alexander Schunka
The Apocalypsis Nova – Narrating Prophecy and Reform Theology on the Eve of the Reformation
