IMC 2022: Sessions
Session 1740: Social Belief and Dissidence, III: Constructing Heretical Belief in Sermons and Polemics
Thursday 7 July 2022, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for the Digital Research of Religion & Dissident Networks Project (DISSINET), Masarykova Univerzita, Brno |
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| Organisers: | Robert Shaw, Oriel College, University of Oxford David Zbíral, Department for the Study of Religions, Masarykova univerzita, Brno |
| Moderator/Chair: | Lucy Sackville, Exeter College, University of Oxford |
| Paper 1740-a | The Construction of Orthodoxy: Heresy, Belief, and Ritual in Sermons from Arras and Paris (Language: English) Index terms: Ecclesiastical History, Sermons and Preaching, Social History, Theology |
| Paper 1740-b | The Imagery of 'Luciferians' in Early 14th-Century Central Europe: Local and European Contexts (Language: English) Index terms: Anthropology, Ecclesiastical History, Religious Life, Theology |
| Abstract | Rather than something other-worldly, transcendent, internal, and somewhat intangible for the purposes of historical study, beliefs are very 'external' and social - not only socially communicated but also socially formed and remoulded. This panel looks at dissident, polemical, and inquisitorial sources in order to address the social dynamics of dissident beliefs, the channels and techniques of their transmission (be it orally or through writings). It also addresses the social processes that influenced their 'construction' by inquisitors and other churchmen in trial records, sermons, inquisitors' manuals, and polemical literature concerning heresy, the latter of which exerted tangible impact on the discursive formation of 'religion' in European thought. |