The European Wars of Religion

Harriet Rudolph is Professor of Modern History (Early Modern Times) at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Wolfgang Palaver is Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Dean of the School of Catholic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 2007 to 2011 he was president of the 'Colloquium on Violence and Religion'. Dietmar Regensburger is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.

Contents

Introduction

Wolfgang Palaver, Harriet Rudolph, and Dietmar Regensburger

Part I Historical Approaches

1 Religion and Violence in the Hussite Wars

Pavel Soukup

2 Religion, War, and Violence in the Swiss Confederation

Thomas Lau

3 Were the French Wars of Religion Really Wars of Religion?

Philip Benedict

4 Religious Wars in the Holy Roman Empire? From the Schmalkaldic War to the Thirty Years War

Harriet Rudolph

5 England’s Wars of Religion: A Reassessment

Charles W. A. Prior

6 Justifying Force in Early Modern Doctrines on Self-defence and Resistance

Luise Schorn-Schütte

Part II Approaches from Philosophy and Theology

7 Secularization of the Holy: A Reading of the ‘Wars of Religion’

William T. Cavanaugh

8 The Modern State or the Myth of ‘Political Violence’

Paul Dumouchel

9 The Modern Military–Humanitarian Hybrid State: A Response to Paul Dumouchel

Bruce Ward

10 Confessional Wars and Religious Violence in Christianity from a Theological Viewpoint

Ralf Miggelbrink

11 Religion and Violence: The Case of Wars in the Former Yugoslavia

Janez Juhant

12 The Debate About the European Wars of Religion as a Challenge to Interdisciplinary Cooperation

Wolfgang Palaver

Index