Description
Ideas of religious reform as well as formation and institutional organization of confessional churches from the beginning of the 16th century had wide-ranging consequences in shaping political and social structures within the early modern modernization process. Besides its formative, macro-historical function, derived in line with political-theoretical maxim religio vinculum societatis, Reformation determined profoundly the construction of ethical, political and legal norms, ethnic, confessional and gender identities and cultures, individual and socio-psychological profiles as well as patterns and models of everyday practices.
