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Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin examines the role of migrants and exiles in shaping the process of confessional change in Britain and Ireland and in Denmark/Norway. He suggests that neither region was particularly influenced by general population movements arising from direct religiously motivated persecution. However, his chapter does highlight the key role played by migrants on a number of different levels. Clerical education in centres outside these regions was of crucial importance in the development of particular confessional groupings throughout Britain, Ireland and Scandinavia, not least in the development of seminal leadership cadres. In addition, migrant experience is very evident in the lives of a great number of the authors who produced the key identity texts of the nascent post-Reformation confessions across Northern Europe. He also draws attention to the manner in which religion affected migratory decisions in far more ways than the creation of “refugees” from explicit religious persecution. Rather, particularly evident in Ireland, religion proved an important component in a complex web of motivations influencing both immigration and emigration during the Early Modern period.
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hAnnracháin, T.Ó. (2020). Confessional Migration and Religious Change in the Northern European Reformations. In: Kelly, J.E., Laugerud, H., Ryan, S. (eds) Northern European Reformations. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-54458-4_6
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