The Peasant Fire Analysis

Xuan Chen
Kyle Dieleman
Modern Religion and Culture
27 February 2013
Peasant Fires the Drummer of Niklashausen “The Peasant Fire” demonstrates a story about a drummer named Hans and his followers. They try to preach from a small town in Germany to Niklashausen to protest against the priests and bishops following Virgin Mary’s report. In the enchanted time, the real world is like attaching to a spiritual area, which follows the sermons of the priests and the Church, and faithful to what the Lord said. While the priests and the Church have done many things to exploit peasants and believers, they need to rebel from the Church by the sermons.
Also, Peasants always have to pay a high fee of punishment to the Church and feasts. They are living in a hardship and suppressed by other divine status. The priest leads the superior area of the pyramid, while the worker, the peasant, is at the bottom of
Mary is the Queen of Heaven who protects the lower lever peasants and workers. She tells Hans to precede the burning drummers to the Shrine. Through Hans’ sermon that he will take a lot of people to do their will by burning vanities and clean the sins of clergies, followers are inspired and aroused by Hans’ will. They are pious to the mother of God and they are willing to put off the clergies and nobilities. The way they can go through the spiritual process is to go on the pilgrimage to the shrine, Niklashausen, to get purification and releasing.
Another rule, which determines Hans and his followers to do the pilgrimage, is because of their poverty, the economic rule. A peasant can barely get their work by enough harvest to support a family, be prepared for next year. The basic need is also to have to satisfy the money for religious work. For example, the church holds different feasts to the revival of Christ, Lent to get huge revenue from peasants and followers, and births, wedding and