Sober, Strict, and Scriptural: Collective Memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xiv, 394 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Johan de Niet, Ph.D. (2006), studied History at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. His Ph.D. dissertation deals with the the history of the pastoral market in the Netherlands. He published on Dutch cultural and religious history and collective memory.

Herman Paul, Ph.D. (2006), is Assistant Professor of Historical Theory at Leiden University and a research fellow in modern intellectual history at the University of Groningen. His research interests include historiography, philosophy of history, religious history, and memory studies.

Bart Wallet, MA, studied history and Hebrew at the University of Amsterdam and specialized in Jewish and religious history. Presently finishing his Ph.D. thesis on early modern Yiddish historiography, he lectures in Jewish history at the Catholic University Leuven.

Readership

All those interested in intellectual history, collective memory studies, John Calvin, and modern interpretations of the Reformation, as well as theologians and church historians.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Calvin, History, and Memory, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet

1. Calvin’s Image in Catholic France during the Nineteenth Century, Michèle Sacquin
2. French Protestants and the Legacy of John Calvin: Reformer and Legislator, Patrick Cabanel
3. Issus de Calvin: Collective Memories of John Calvin in Dutch Neo-Calvinism, Herman Paul and Johan de Niet
4. “Calvin’s Truth” And “Hungarian Religion”: Remembering a Reformer, Botond Gaál
5. Calvin in Germany: A Marginalized Memory, Stefan Laube
6. Servetus vs. Calvin: A Battle of Monuments during the Secularization of the French Third Republic, Valentine Zuber
7. Calvin in Missionary Memory and Chinese Protestant Identity, Jonathan Seitz
8. Calvin and Anti-Apartheid Memory in the Dutch Reformed Family of Churches in South Africa, Robert Vosloo
9. Calvin: A Negative Boundary Marker in American Lutheran Self-Identity, 1871-1934, R. Scott Clark
10. “The Republican Reformer”: John Calvin and the American Calvinists, 1830-1910, R. Bryan Bademan
11. The Image of Calvin within Mormonism, Stephen S. Francis
12. Shadow on the Alps: John Calvin and English Travellers in Geneva, James Rigney
13. “The French Barber”: Calvin as a Source of Burlesque in Mark Twain, Joe B. Fulton
14. The Death of Adam, the Resurrection of Calvin: Marilynne Robinson’s Alternative to an American Ideograph, Thomas J. Davis

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