SEMPRE FORTI ALLA SANTA FEDE – CONFESSIONAL DISCOURSE ON RELIGIOUS CONFORMITY IN THE CATHOLIC SOURCES CONCERNING OTTOMAN BALKANS (17th AND 18th C.)
SEMPRE FORTI ALLA SANTA FEDE – CONFESSIONAL DISCOURSE ON RELIGIOUS CONFORMITY IN THE CATHOLIC SOURCES CONCERNING OTTOMAN BALKANS (17th AND 18th C.)
Author(s): Rafael Dorian ChelaruSubject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History, History of Church(es), Modern Age, Special Historiographies:, Theology and Religion, Islam studies, 17th Century, 18th Century, The Ottoman Empire, Eastern Orthodoxy, Other Christian Denominations, History of Islam, History of Religion
Published by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Catholicism; Islam; Confessional Discourse; Religious Conformity; Syncretism;
Summary/Abstract: The present article explores some of the main features of the confessional discourse present in the ecclesiastic sources dealing with Catholicism in Early Modern Ottoman Balkans (particularly Bosnia and Albania) with a special stress on the issue of religious conformity. Our conclusion is that the Catholic clergy, although aware of the various local conditions and demonstrating often a solid knowledge of their subjects’ minds, operated with a confessional mindset embedded with the Tridentine norms.
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2017
- Issue No: 3
- Page Range: 450-462
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English
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