ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the concepts discussed in fifth part of this book. The part demonstrates how the spatial turn can deepen our understanding of relations between early modern religious groups. It examines the complex, changing religious topography of Cracow between mid-fifteenth and late sixteenth centuries. Churches shared by two or more Protestant confessions existed at one time or another in Poland and Ireland, among other places, but paradoxically, since the groups were much closer to one another in doctrine and liturgy than were Catholics and Protestants, such churches were much rarer. New approaches to the study of religious toleration have generated renewed interest in the sharing of sacred spaces, both within Europe and outside it. Scholars have also extended the subject of sharing space beyond places of worship to consider more widely the spatial configurations of religiously mixed communities.
