Two types of religious war can be identified in the history of early modern Christian Europe: one, a war among the various Christian confessions, and the other between (parts of) western Christendom and the non-Christian, particularly Islamic world (Turkish Wars). The German Religionskrieg is used alongside frequent synonyms, such as Konfessionskrieg (confessional war), Glaubenskrieg (war of faith), and konfessioneller Bürgerkrieg (confessional civil war), which to some extent serv…