Opitz Selderhuis

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Title / Titel	Topic RefoRG Conference 2011 Zurich: THE MYTH OF THE REFORMATION, June 8-10, 2011
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Summary / Zusammenfassung	Heading for 2017 as the 500th birthday of the Reformation, the fundamental question is not whether or not Martin Luther hammered his 95 theses on that 31st of October 1517 on the door of the castle church at Wittenberg, but what is meant by the concept 'the Reformation'. Are it's meaning and influence as self-evident as is often presupposed? Was Luther the central figure? Was it an anti-catholic movement? Was it a German invention? And should not be spoken of Reformations (plural) instead of one Reformation (singular)? Some of these questions are being dealt with during the first RefoRG conference by leading scholars in the field of early modern research. Next to these plenary speakers focusing on 'The myth of the Reformation' other scholars will present short papers on a wide variety of topics. Weitere Informationen
Keywords / Suchbegriffe	Reformation, Church History, Social History, confessionalisation, Early Modern History, European History, History of Religions, counter-reformation,
Project leadership and contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte	Prof. Dr. Peter Opitz (Project Leader) Peter.Opitz@uzh.ch Prof. Dr. Herman Selderhuis (Project Leader) hjselderhuis@refo500.nl
Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch	SNF (Personen- und Projektförderung), Others
In collaboration with / In Zusammenarbeit mit	Prof. Dr. Herman Selderhuis, Prof. of Church History, Theologische Universiteit Apeldoorn Netherlands
Duration of Project / Projektdauer	Feb 2011 to Jul 2011