Adopting a new religion: The case of Protestantism in 16th Century Germany

Using a rich dataset of territories and cities of the Holy Roman Empire in the16th century, this paper investigates the determinants of adoption and diffusion ofProtestantism as a state religion. A territory s distance to Wittenberg, the city whereMartin Luther taught, is a major determinant of adoption. This finding can be explainedthrough a theory of strategic neighbourhood interactions: in an uncertainlegal context, introducing the Reformation was a risky enterprise for territorial lords,and had higher prospects of success if powerful neighbouring states committed tothe new faith first. The model is tested in a panel dataset featuring the dates ofintroduction of the Reformation.

Religion och demokrati: protestantism, katolicism och islam i ett komparativt perspektiv

Abstract: Religion and democracy: Protestantism, Catholicism and Islam in comparative perspective

The Divina commedia and Paradise lost reflect mediaevalism and the renaissance, catholicism and protestantism ...

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Protestantism; a study in the direction of religious truth and Christian unity.

"Explanatory index of authors cited," p. [433]-436.

Gustavus Adolphus, and the struggle of Protestantism for existence,

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Sketches of protestantism in Italy, past and present; including a notice of the origin, history, and present state of the Waldenses.

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Reply to Hugh J. Rose's work on the state of Protestantism in Germany.

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The social sources of church unity: an interpretation of unitive movements in American Protestantism.

Includes bibliography.

Catholicity, Protestantism and infidelity : an appeal to candid Americans /

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The Bible against protestantism and for catholicity ; evinced in a conference between a catholic, a protestant (episcopalian), and a presbyterian. /

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The history of the popes, their church and state, and especially of their conflicts with Protestantism in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries /

Vol. III, "Appendix."

The history of the popes, their church and state, and especially of their conflicts with Protestantism in the sixteenth & seventeenth centuries /

Vol. III, "Appendix."

Protestantism in Poland, a brief study of its history as an encouragement to mission work among the Poles,

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St. Paul and Protestantism : with an essay on Puritanism and the Church of England : and last essays on church and religion /

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