caa a22 4500 388057459 CHVBK 20180307125111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199805 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034193200005872 doi S0034193200005872 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034193200005872 Davies John Traditional Religion, Popular Piety, or Base Superstition? The Cause for the Beatification of Teresa Higginson [Elektronische Daten] [John Davies] Eamon Duffy's The Stripping of the Altars has reinvigorated the debate over the nature of late mediaeval religious practice and belief, examining the ‘richness and complexity of the religious system by which men and women structured their experiences of the world, and their hopes and aspirations within and beyond it.' Duffy questions the assumption that there was in that period a wide gulf between ‘popular' and ‘élite' religion. In so doing he has not only illuminated the religious practices and beliefs of late mediaeval England but he has stimulated discussion about the relationship between ‘popular' and ‘élite' religion in other periods. Duffy eschews the use of the term ‘popular religion', which he argues carries questionable assumptions about the nature of ‘non-popular' religion and about the gap between the two. He prefers ‘traditional religion', on the grounds that it does greater justice to ‘the shared and inherited character of the religious beliefs and practices of the people ' ‘Traditional religion' while being rooted in inherited and shared beliefs was, nevertheless, capable of great flexibility and variety. Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973 Recusant History Cambridge University Press 24/1(1998-05), 123-144 0034-1932 24:1<123 1998 24 BCH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034193200005872 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034193200005872 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Davies John NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Recusant History Cambridge University Press 24/1(1998-05), 123-144 0034-1932 24:1<123 1998 24 BCH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge