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Review Of Ambiguous Gender In Early Modern Spain And Portugal. Inquisitors, Doctors And The Transgression Of Gender Norms By Francois Soyer, Ulrich Lehner Jul 2014

Review Of Ambiguous Gender In Early Modern Spain And Portugal. Inquisitors, Doctors And The Transgression Of Gender Norms By Francois Soyer, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

Cases of priests, who claimed to be women in order to conceal their homosexuality, and women, who dressed as men in order to escape their abusive husbands, allow the reader a rare glimpse into the inner lives of post-Tridentine Catholicism.


Review Of Atheism, Religion And Enlightenment In Pre-Revolutionary Europe By Mark Curran, Ulrich Lehner Jul 2014

Review Of Atheism, Religion And Enlightenment In Pre-Revolutionary Europe By Mark Curran, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

No abstract provided.


Review Of Urspruenge Des Atheismus By Winfried Schröder, Ulrich Lehner Jul 2014

Review Of Urspruenge Des Atheismus By Winfried Schröder, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

Challenges Michael Buckley's claims in At the Origins of Modern Atheism (1990) that modern atheism had its foundation in d'Holbach and Diderot, that historical biblical criticism helped the emergence of atheism, and that natural theology was the "midwife" for atheist thought.


How Enlightened Can A Monk Be? The Efforts Of Eighteenth-Century German Benedictines To Reform Monastery And Church, Ulrich Lehner Jul 2014

How Enlightened Can A Monk Be? The Efforts Of Eighteenth-Century German Benedictines To Reform Monastery And Church, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

This article investigates how German Benedictines in the eighteenth century tried to reform monastic life and Catholic theology by adopting various aspects of Enlightenment lifestyle and thought. It demonstrates the intellectual diversity that existed in this religious order and the order's intensive dialogue with contemporary culture.


Ghosts Of Westphalia: Fictions And Ideals Of Ecclesial Unity In Enlightenment Germany, Ulrich Lehner Jul 2014

Ghosts Of Westphalia: Fictions And Ideals Of Ecclesial Unity In Enlightenment Germany, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

No abstract provided.


Enlightened Monasticism, Ulrich Lehner Jul 2014

Enlightened Monasticism, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

No abstract provided.


Review Of A Chronicle Of The Carmelites In Persia: The Safavids And The Papal Mission Of The 17th And 18th Centuries, Ulrich Lehner Jul 2014

Review Of A Chronicle Of The Carmelites In Persia: The Safavids And The Papal Mission Of The 17th And 18th Centuries, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

[...]the work provides detailed information about missionary strategies, as a letter of 1665 from a Persian Carmelite to the general of the order in Rome makes clear: "To confound Persian temerity accomplished persons are needed, for these people are very studious-they have infinite esteem for a Religious who can stand up to them (in argument)" (1:448).


Enlightenment And Catholicism In Europe. A Transnational History, Ulrich Lehner, Jeffrey Burson Mar 2014

Enlightenment And Catholicism In Europe. A Transnational History, Ulrich Lehner, Jeffrey Burson

Ulrich L. Lehner

No abstract provided.