| Preface and Acknowledgements | | x | |
| Introduction | | 1 | (16) |
| | 17 | (23) |
| The medieval doctrine of salvation |
| | 17 | (4) |
| Martin Luther's theological breakthrough |
| | 21 | (4) |
| Zwingli and the early Swiss reformers |
| | 25 | (2) |
| Imparted and imputed righteousness |
| | 27 | (3) |
| | 30 | (4) |
| Sin and salvation in the thinking of the radical reformers |
| | 34 | (2) |
| Popular ideas on sin and salvation |
| | 36 | (4) |
| | 40 | (20) |
| The sacramental tradition |
| | 40 | (3) |
| The Reformation of the Sacraments |
| | 43 | (4) |
| | 47 | (4) |
| | 51 | (9) |
| ``By this book'': Authority and Interpretation |
| | 60 | (12) |
| Biblical Authority and the Church |
| | 61 | (2) |
| | 63 | (1) |
| | 64 | (4) |
| The authority of the Spirit |
| | 68 | (1) |
| | 69 | (3) |
| The True Church in the Protestant Tradition: Theory and Organization |
| | 72 | (23) |
| The Reformation doctrines of the True Church: theory and practice |
| | 75 | (1) |
| The Lutheran state church |
| | 76 | (5) |
| The True Church in the Calvinist tradition |
| | 81 | (3) |
| The Gathered Church in the doctrine of the Radical reformers |
| | 84 | (2) |
| The clergy: priests or ministers? |
| | 86 | (9) |
| Church and State: the Protestant Churches and Secular Authority |
| | 95 | (29) |
| Church and State in the Lutheran tradition |
| | 96 | (4) |
| Church and State in the Swiss Calvinist tradition |
| | 100 | (1) |
| Church and State in Calvinist Germany |
| | 101 | (2) |
| The radical reformers: the separation of church and state |
| | 103 | (2) |
| The One Catholic Church and the nation-church |
| | 105 | (2) |
| The Revolution of the Saints? |
| | 107 | (9) |
| Social discipline and the reformation of manners |
| | 116 | (3) |
| The common weal: poverty and social welfare |
| | 119 | (5) |
| Literacy, Education and the Popular Response to the Reformation |
| | 124 | (15) |
| | 124 | (2) |
| Oral culture and the spread of the Reformation |
| | 126 | (2) |
| | 128 | (1) |
| | 129 | (4) |
| Visual culture, visual literacy and iconoclasm |
| | 133 | (6) |
| Liturgy and the Articulation of Belief |
| | 139 | (36) |
| The Reform of the Liturgy |
| | 139 | (5) |
| | 144 | (9) |
| | 153 | (4) |
| | 157 | (2) |
| Repentance and reconciliation |
| | 159 | (4) |
| The Solemnization of Matrimony |
| | 163 | (2) |
| | 165 | (3) |
| Singing the ritual: music and liturgy in the Protestant tradition |
| | 168 | (2) |
| Shaping ritual: architecture and the visual appearance of worship |
| | 170 | (5) |
| Ritual and Society: The Reshaping of Popular Religious Practice |
| | 175 | (18) |
| | 177 | (3) |
| Ritual purification: childbirth and the churching of women |
| | 180 | (2) |
| Repentance, confession and the Eucharist |
| | 182 | (2) |
| Marriage and the ritual control of sexuality |
| | 184 | (2) |
| Death, burial and the ritual community |
| | 186 | (3) |
| The ritual of everyday life |
| | 189 | (4) |
| Popular Belief and Folk Culture |
| | 193 | (10) |
| Popular religion and the cults of the saints |
| | 194 | (3) |
| The Pursuit of the Millennium |
| | 197 | (2) |
| Witchcraft and witch persecution |
| | 199 | (2) |
| | 201 | (2) |
| Conclusion | | 203 | (9) |
| Notes | | 212 | (15) |
| Biographical Notes | | 227 | (6) |
| Glossary | | 233 | (5) |
| Further reading | | 238 | (9) |
| Bibliography | | 247 | (8) |
| Index | | 255 | |
