Federica Viviani, Mag. theol.

Project F03: Craftsmen – farmers – clergymen. Threats to social-moral systems of order in religious literary discourse (15th - 17th century)

Project F03 examines the relationship between religiously influenced threat communication and social order in a diachronic comparative study using three exemplary constellations that span different epochs. We ask questions about the connections between threat communication and a loss of trust in religious and political authorities, about the relevance of threat scenarios as possible indicators of social change, about communicative strategies of mobilization using threat scenarios, and about imagined forms of re-ordering.