print and popular religious literature stimulated many distinctive individual interpretation of faith among the little educated working people. analyse the statement
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1) Print created the possibility of wide circulation of ideas and introduced a new world of scientists and philosophers to the common people through the printed message they would persuade of people to think differently and this had significance in different spheres
(2) For example in 1517, the religious reformer, Martin Luther wrote ‘Ninety Five Theses’ criticizing many rituals and practices of Roman Catholic Church. Luther’s writings were immediately reproduced in vast numbers and read widely. Luther’s translation of the New Testament sold 5,000 copies within a few weeks.
(3) Several scholars in fact, think that print brought about a new intellectual atmosphere and helped spread the new ideas that led to the reformation.
(1) Martin Luther wrote ‘Ninety Five Theses’ criticizing the malpractices in the Roman Catholic Church.
(2) He pasted a printed copy of it on the door of a Church in Wittenberg.
(3) Luther’s writing immediately became popular through printed copies and was widely read. 5000 copies of Luther’s translation of the New Testament were printed and sold in one week.
(4) All this led to a religious debate and marked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation Movement.
(5) Thus, we see that Martin Luther had rightly remarked that printing technology played a key role in bringing about religious reforms in the 16th Century.
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this can be seen in menocchio case
a miller in italy , menocchio , who had read books and interpretated the message of bible and formulate a view of god.