Amazon.com description: Product Description: Crypto-radicalism is a phenomenon of pre-modern and modern societies that is based on the greatest possible consensus and is at times and under certain circumstances enforced. Alternative thinking and action must lay low, especially when they in principle (radically) reject the social consensus. This is particularly true for early modern European societies, which were largely dominated by confessionalisation and social discipline. It is much more rewarding to explore the nature and forms of crypto-radicalism in the period between the Reformation and the Enlightenment and to investigate the extent of crypto-radicalism in persons, printed works, institutions, or social movements. As opposed to terms such as non-conformity, deviance, dissidentism, heterodoxy, or nicodemism, the study shows that the term crypto-radicalism is very suitable for actively labeling a peculiarity of modern thinking and action that has received little attention in modern society. German text.