This volume presents important essays by Susan C. Karant-Nunn for the first time in collected
form. The essays deal with the social and cultural change triggered by the Reformation and
investigate its influence on gender relations rituals and emotions. Often in critical
dialogue with sociological and anthropological theories but at the same time very close to the
sources the author analyses how the religious change of the Reformation was implemented in
practice what problems arose in the process and how the diverse early modern living
environments changed as a result of the Reformation.
