Decisions about Truth and the Pressure to Take a Position: The Communicative Production of Needs for Decision-Making in the Early Reformation (B04)

• Subject Area: Early Modern History
• Term: from 2015 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 252080619

In the early Reformation, a new plurality of religious decision-making options was under discussion while people also debated whether decisions had to be made at all. By pursuing research on cultures of decision-making in the early Reformation, the project aims to obtain new insights on two central themes: urban religious colloquies and the relation of Humanism and the Reformation. In both these areas, the project emphasizes the communicative production of decision-making needs as well as the procedures and performances of decision-making itself.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1150: Cultures of Decision-Making
• Applicant Institution: Universität Münster
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Matthias Pohlig