HIS340H5 Lecture Notes - Petrarch, Protestantism, Ancient Law
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How protestant became a popular religion, what are they choosing them they chose protestant. Old tradition model; all the conversion stories apply to mart. Traditional model = conversion happens, what is this new conversion model that he puts forward; long drawn out all of a sudden is conversion, the new model is a long and complex process of religious conversion. Not all of a sudden like historians have traditionally saw. Idea; tear an anatomy of commitment; awareness, understanding. Not just looking at this from the perspective of the intellectual elites. He talks about how conversion process takes place with a social context. Why people would convert to be a protestant, why would people convert to protestant, changing their religion trying to get you to change. The conversion; individual level & double process of commitment. Individual & community; he"s providing an incite full account for converting to protestant.
