20–22 ottobre 2021
Early modern Catholicism was a religion at once deeply rooted in local contexts and fiercely committed to universal reach in the wake of its overseas expansion. This conference sheds light on this creative tension by looking at the cult of saints. Devotion to men and women who had died in the odor of sanctity often started as local affairs but turned global as Catholics at the grassroots sought to inscribe their cults into the belief system of an emerging world religion. Centering the complex interplay between patterns of localization and universalization, this conference looks at the translocal networks, decision-making processes, and the quest for symbolic predominance at the heart of early modern saint-making in order to tell a new story of Catholicism as the world's first "glocal" religion.
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Istituto Svizzero di Roma (Via Ludovisi, 48 - Roma)
Evento in presenza. Per la registrazione si prega di scrivere una e-mail a Christian Windler (christian.windler[at]hist.unibe.ch).
In collaborazione con l'Istituto Svizzero di Roma, la cattedra di Storia di età moderna dell'istituto di storia della Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main e del dipartimento di Storia moderna dell'istituto di storia dell'Università di Berna. Promosso dalla Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) e dalla Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
Organizzazione: Birgit Emich (Francoforte sul Meno), Daniel Sidler (Basilea), Samuel Weber (Berna), Christian Windler (Berna).