The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformation

Abstract

Part One : Assessment -- Dependent activities : sacraments, ceremonies and intercessions -- Independent activities : prayers, images and cult objects -- Inclusive institutions : parish churches, chapels and guilds -- Exclusive institutions : papacy, religious orders and secular clergy -- Summation of part one -- Part two : Explanation -- Spiritual motivations : Lutheranism, Calvinism and other faiths -- Non-spiritual motivations : politics, economics and other forces -- Mediate influences : Literature, drama and art -- Immediate influences : Example, action and oral communication -- Summation of Part Two -- Perspective -- Appendix 1 : maps -- The south-west -- Churchwardens' accounts -- Cult objects -- Riot and rebellion -- Protestantism -- Appendix 2 : graphs -- Wills -- Churchwardens' accounts -- Church-building projects.