Fulfilling God’s Mission

Biographical note Readership Reviews Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xxviii, 628 pp., 47 illustrations

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Willem Frijhoff (*1942), Ph.D. in History (1981), was Research Assistant in Religious Anthropology at the EHESS in Paris (France), and Professor of Cultural History at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam. He is now Professor Emeritus of the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He has published extensively on French and Dutch cultural and religious history, including Embodied Belief: Ten Essays on Religious Culture in Dutch History (2002), and 1650: Hard-Won Unity (2004).

Readership

Those interested in early modern biography, history of spirituality, history of education, colonial history, Atlantic history, New York history, ethnic history, and the descendants of Anneke Jans and Everardus Bogardus .

Reviews

This study is austere in its avoidance of general conclusions, but exceptionally rich in detail.
James D. Tracy, H-Atlantic (August, 2011)

"I have no hesitation in calling this book brilliant. [...} It is a must-read (and re-read) book."
Jaap Jacobs, de Halve Maen: Journal of The Holland Society of New York, Summer 2008, 37 p.

"Frijhoff is erin geslaagd een inhoudelijk sterk levensverhaal over Bogaert tes schrijven, dat op de boekenplank thuishoort van eenieder die zich serieus bezighoudt met de vroegste geschiedenis van de Nederlands-Amerikaanse betrekkingen."
Enne Koops, Transparant, Jaargang 20, nr. 1-09, p. 53.

Preface
Conventions
Abbreviations
List of Illustrations

Prologue
- A Little Spiritual Song
- The Mystical Experience

PART I. VOCATION
1. A Child without Parents
2. Evert’s World
3. An Orphan in Woerden
4. Words, Sounds, Images
5. Election
6. Body Language
7. Deliverance
8. Recognition

Intermezzo: Reaching Maturity
9. Comforter of the Sick in Mouri

PART II. MISSIONS
10. A Minister in Manhattan
11. A New Netherland Family
12. Confrontations
13. War
14. Responsibilities
15. Mission Work
16. Taking Stock

Epilogue: The Anneke Jans Story

Appendix. Relatives by Blood and Marriage of Evert Willemsz Bogaert

Index

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