This Handbook takes a broad overview of the Protestant Reformations, seeing them as movements which stretched far beyond their European beginnings. Written by a team of international scholars of history and theology, the contributions offer up-to-date perspectives on Reformation ideas and the lasting historical impact of Protestantism.

1: Ulinka Rublack: Introduction Part I: The New Theology 2: Christopher Ocker: Explaining Evil and Grace 3: Alec Ryrie: The Nature of Spiritual Experience 4: Robin Barnes: Reforming Time 5: Glenn Burgess: Political Obedience Part II: Geographies and Varieties of the Reformations 6: Graeme Murdoch: Geographies of the Protestant Reformation 7: Howard Louthan: The Bohemian Reformations 8: Thomas Kaufmann: Luther and Lutheranism 9: Randolph Head: The Swiss Reformations: Movements, Settlements, and Re-Imagination, 1520-1720 10: C. Scott Dixon: The Radicals 11: Mack P. Holt: Calvin and Reformed Protestantism 12: Felicity Heal: The English, Scottish and Irish Reformations 13: Philip Soergel: Protestantism in the Age of Catholic Renewal 14: Andrew Gow & Jeremy Fradkin: Protestantism and non-Christian Religions 15: Howard Hotson: Outsiders, Dissenters and Competing Visions of Reform 16: Ulrike Gleixner: Pietism 17: Mark Häberlein: Protestantism Outside Europe Part III: Communicating the Reformations 18: Andrew Pettegree: Print Workshops and Markets 19: Helmut Puff: The Word 20: Susan Karant Nunn: The Reformation of Liturgy 21: Mark Greengrass: An "Epistolary Reformation ": The Role and Significance of Letters in the First Century of the Protestant Reformation Part IV: Sites, Institutions, and Society 22: Michael Heyd: University Scholars of the Reformation 23: Charlotte Methuen: Education and Understandings of Social Hierarchy 24: Joel Harrington: Legal Courts 25: Beat Kumin: Rural Society 26: Guido Marnef: Civic Religions 27: Ronald Asch: The European Nobilities and the Reformation Part V: Identities and Cultural Meanings of the Reformations 28: Craig Koslofsky: Explaining Change 29: Bridget Heal: Visual and Material Culture 30: Christopher Boyd-Brown: Music 31: Herman Roodenburg: The Body in the Reformations 32: Kathleen M. Crowther: Sexual Difference 33: Ute Lotz-Heumann: The Natural and Supernatural 34: Christine R. Johnson: Commerce and Consumption 35: Alisha Rankin: Natural Philosophy Part VI: Assessing the Reformations 36: Merry Wiesner-Hanks: Comparisons and Consequences in Global Perspective, 1500-1750 37: Bruce Gordon: History and Memory

Takes a global approach to the usually Europe-centric study of the Protestant Reformations Brings together contributions from international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history Offers up-to-date perspectives on key themes, such as Martin Luther and the Swiss reformations Addresses many themes at the cutting edge of scholarship, such as the history of emotions, the history of knowledge, and global history

Ulinka Rublack is a Professor at the University of Cambridge and has published widely on early modern European history as well as approaches to history. She has edited, most recently, The Oxford Concise Companion to History (2011). Her monographs include The Astronomer and the Witch: Johannes Kepler's Fight for his Mother (2015); Reformation Europe (2005); The Crimes of Women in Early Modern Germany (1999); and Dressing Up: Cultural Identity in Renaissance Europe (2010), which won the Roland H. Bainton Prize.

Takes a global approach to the usually Europe-centric study of the Protestant Reformations Brings together contributions from international scholars in the fields of theology, intellectual thought, and social and cultural history Offers up-to-date perspectives on key themes, such as Martin Luther and the Swiss reformations Addresses many themes at the cutting edge of scholarship, such as the history of emotions, the history of knowledge, and global history