EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) is an international research group dedicated to the study of religious differences, conflicts and plurality in Europe during the early modern period.
The group was first constituted at Pisa by a group of European scholars based in France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, the USA and the UK in 2007. After four years, during which the members of the group met regularly and organized a series of workshops in Italy, EMoDiR has formally instituted a scientific organization, based in Verona in 2011. Since then, scholars from a wide range of universities and research centers located in Europe, North America and Australia have joined the group and a series of formal institutional partnerships have been established.
The aim of the research group is to examine the early modern discursive constructions of religious dissent and the socio-cultural practices of radical movements and religious minorities transcending traditional historiographical boundaries (notably national and/or confessional). Since the ‘construction of the dissenter’ is the outcome of a complex process, it is necessary to analyze this process both in terms of internal and synchronic dynamics, and of external and diachronic ones.
We understand religious dissent as discourses, practices, attitudes, or habits that express tension with, or rejection of, the dominant socio-cultural dynamic, whether openly, clandestinely or unconsciously. Study of such dissent must be connected with a thorough reflection about the categories that inspire and structure the researchers’ own terminologies.
From its very beginning EMoDiR has promoted research into the social networks of individuals and specific groups, as well as on the dynamics involved in constructing socio-cultural identities. By considering dissent as a socio-cultural construction rather than a doctrinal position, the first objective of the group consists in deconstructing and historically contextualizing such commonly used categories as dissent, radicalism, dissidence, libertinism, heresy, heterodoxy as prerequisite to a critical and problematic use of them.
Therefore EMoDiR is committed to gathering together a variety of research projects on early modern religious culture conceived as a multi-faceted and dynamic system. This religious culture, moreover, was essential in forging complex identities and encouraging dialogue between them. Analysis, both at local and transnational level (from a predominantly but not exclusively European perspective) is intended to contribute to a cultural and social history of dissent.
Stefano Villani deposited EMoDir Research Group Report 2019-2021 in the group
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 1 month, 2 weeks agoEMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) Research Group Report 2019-2021
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Stefano Villani uploaded the file: Call for Papers RSA 2022: "Heritagization & Religion in Early Modern Times Exploring the disciplinary crossroads between heritage, museums and history" to
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoPlease consider submitting a proposal for this roundtable on heritagization and religion organized by EMoDiR Research Group through Federico Barbierato, Università di Verona, and Helena Wangefelt Ström, Uppsala University.
What happens when religion becomes heritage, when religious heritage is claimed by different groups with different aims, or w…[Read more] -
Stefano Villani uploaded the file: Call for Papers RSA 2022: “Under the Power of God: Trembling, Shaking, and Convulsions in Early Modern religious practices and imagination” to
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 6 months, 2 weeks agoEMoDiR is an international research group focusing on the history of religious dissent, radicalism, and minorities in early modern times (emodir.hypotheses.org). Since 2011, the group has organized panels at RSA annual conferences on practices and conceptual frameworks of religious conflict, heresy, and groups of radical dissent. The panels are…[Read more]
Scott Oldenburg deposited A Weaver-Poet and the Plague: Labor, Poverty and the Household in Shakespeare’s London in the group
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 8 months agoWilliam Muggins, an impoverished but highly literate weaver-poet, lived and wrote in London at the turn of the seventeenth century, when few of his contemporaries could even read. A Weaver-Poet and the Plague’s microhistorical approach uses Muggins’s life and writing, in which he articulates a radical vision of a commonwealth founded on labor and…[Read more]
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Stefano Villani edited the file: Simone Maghenzani, and Stefano Villani, eds. British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900. Routledge Studies in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020) in
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Stefano Villani uploaded the file: Simone Maghenzani, and Stefano Villani, eds. British Protestant Missions and the Conversion of Europe, 1600-1900. Routledge Studies in Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism (Abingdon: Routledge, 2020) to
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 1 year, 3 months agoEMODIR ROUTLEDGE SERIES
Titles in the Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism Series address the discursive constructions of religious dissent and the practices of radical movements in the early modern world. The series transcends traditional national and confessional historiographies to examine early modern religious culture as a dynamic…[Read more] 
Fabrice Flückiger deposited Le choix de religion. Le rôle de l’autorité politique dans les disputes religieuses des années 1520 in the group
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis paper shows how city councils in Swiss Cantons and southern Germany coped with the upcoming Reformation by organizing public disputations in order to decide which faith the community should choose.
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Stefano Villani uploaded the file: MAPPING EARLY MODERN RELIGIOUS DISSENT EMoDiR Call for Papers RSA 2020 Philadelphia. DEADLINE June 30, 2019 to
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoEMoDiR is an international research group focusing on the history of religious dissent and radicalism in Early Modern Europe (emodir.hypotheses.org). Since 2011, the group has organized panels at RSA annual conferences on practices and conceptual frameworks of religious conflict, heresy, and groups of radical dissents. The panels were…[Read more]
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Stefano Villani deposited EMoDir Research Group Report 2007-2017 in the group
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoEMoDir Research Group Report 2007-2017
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Stefano Villani deposited EMoDir Research Group Report 2018 in the group
EMoDiR (Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism) on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoEMoDir Research Group Report 2018
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