Catholics and Protestants in Graubünden: Confessional Discipline and Confessional Identities without an Early Modern State? (original) (raw)

The idea that 'confessionalization' provides a decisive analytic key to understanding post-Reformation Germany has taken a central role in the burgeoning literature on the subject that has appeared during the last two decades. Formulated most coherently by Heinz Schilling and Wolfgang Reinhard, the confessionalization paradigm provides a coherent perspective on the social, political and cultural forces that shaped central Europe during the century after the Reformation, reuniting the previously disparate historiographies of Lutheran, Reformed and Catholic Germany under the single umbrella of neo-Weberian modernization of state, society, and individual. 1 The success of Schilling and Reinhard's model rests on its sophistication in several different areas. Methodologically, it takes account of the best recent social history without jettisoning the painstaking accumulation of political and institutional history, it also provides a coherent account of similar tendencies found in all the confessional