This volume explores the inherent pluralism of the Reformation and its manifold legacies from an ecumenical and interdisciplinary point of view. The essays shed new light on several key questions such as: How do we interpret and assess the Reformation as a historical and theological event, as a historiographic category, and as a cultural myth? And what are the long-term global consequences of the Reformation period as manifest in the rise of competing confessional cultures and distinct Christian world religions, producing different types of modernities?

Contributors: John Betz, Euan Cameron, Emidio Campi, Simon Ditchfield, Scott Dixon, Johannes Eurich, Patrick Griffin, Ryan P. Hoselton, Matthias Konradt, Greta Grace Kroeker, Hartmut Lehmann, Volker Leppin, David Lincicum, Ute Lotz-Heumann, Friederike Nussel, Manfred Oeming, John O'Malley, Paul Silas Peterson, Jan Stievermann, Christoph Strohm, Douglas A. Sweeney, Randall C. Zachman