Contents: Introduction; Sin and Salvation; The medieval doctrine of salvation; Martin Luther's theological breakthrough; Zwingli and the early Swiss reformers; Imparted and imputed righteousness; Predestination; Sin and salvation in the thinking of the radical reformers; Popular ideas on sin and salvation; Sacrament and Ritual; The sacramental tradition; The Reformation of the Sacraments; Baptism; The Eucharist; "By this book": Authority and Interpretation; Biblical Authority and the Church; Humanism and the Bible; "Sola Scriptura"; The authority of the Spirit; The vernacular Bible; The True Church in the Protestant Tradition: Theory and Organisation; The Reformation doctrines of the True Church: theory and practice; The Lutheran state church; The True Church in the Calvinist tradition; The Gathered Church in the doctrine of the Radical reformers; The clergy: priests or ministers?; Church and State: the Protestant Churches and Secular Authority; Church and State in the Lutheran tradition; Church and State in the Swiss Calvinist tradition; Church and State in Calvinist Germany; The radical reformers: the separation of church and state; The One Catholic Church and the nation-church; The Revolution of the Saints?; Social discipline and the reformation of manners; The common weal: poverty and social welfare; Literacy, Education and the Popular Response to the Reformation; Print and Protestantism; Oral culture and the spread of the Reformation; Faith and reason; Literacy and education; Visual culture, visual literacy and iconoclasm; Liturgy and the Articulation of Belief; The Reform of the Liturgy; The Eucharist; Baptism; Confirmation; Repentance and reconciliation; The Solemnisation of Matrimony; Death and burial; Singing the ritual: music and liturgy in the Protestant tradition; Shaping ritual: architecture and the visual appearance of worship; Ritual and Society: The Reshaping of Popular Religious Practice; Baptism; Ritual purification: childbirth and the churching of women; Repentance, confession and the Eucharist; Marriage and the ritual control of sexuality; Death, burial and the ritual community; The ritual of everyday life; Popular Belief and Folk Culture; Popular religion and the cults of the saints; The Pursuit of the Millennium; Witchcraft and witch persecution; Anti-semitism; Conclusion.