Through compelling personal stories and in rich detail, McClain reveals the give-and-take interaction between the institutional church in Rome and the needs of believers and the hands-on clergy who provided their pastoral care within England. In doing so, she illuminates larger issues of how believers and low-level clergy push the limits of official orthodoxy in order to meet devotional needs.
Lisa McClain is Assistant Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at Boise State University. She studies popular religion during the Reformation era, and has authored articles in journals such as the Sixteenth Century Journal and the Journal of ReligiousHistory.
Title: Lest We Be Damned: Practical Innovation & Lived Experience Among Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642 (Religion in History, Society and ... Catholics in Protestant England, 1559-1642
Author: Mcclain, Lisa
ISBN: 9780415865098
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2015-06-08
Number of Pages: 410
Weight: 0.7623 kg
'Her detailed investigations into some of the remoter by-ways of ecclesiastical and social history make fascinating reading.' - New Directions