New Approaches to Religious Migration in Early Modern Europe
Lecture by Alexander Schunka (Freie Universität, Berlin).
The lecture deals with the relationship between migration and religion in early modern Europe. Building on recent research and various empirical examples from my current book project on early modern migrations, this includes ‘confessional’ migrants such as the Huguenots and Salzburgers, Christian missionaries and captives, and subsistence migrations. I propose distinguishing three categories of (religious) movement: migrations induced, motivated and legitimized by religion. From this starting point, the main part of my lecture will approach religious migration from an actor-centred perspective – as a biographical episode, concerning immobility and finally to the ‘home’ of migrants.
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