This graduate seminar will explore the main trends in the study of early modern European religious history. We will focus on recent advances in long established fields, such as institutional history and the history of religious thought in the age of the Reformation. In addition, we shall discuss recent studies dealing with the influence of the theological controversies that divided the Christian West on the lives of members of various sections of European society. In this context, we shall explore diverse aspects of early modern religious culture, including popular beliefs and traditional rites, the public roles of visionary and prophetic women and men, monastic life, the impact of the printing revolution on urban laborers, and the cultural implications of ecclesiastical censure.