Jan Wim Buisman (1954) wrote numerous publications about the history of the religious mentality and the feeling of nature in the Netherlands from 1750 to 1830. He is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

• Introduction: Lightning after Franklin 1. A New Invention 2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands 3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms 4. Official Religion 5. Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions 6. Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy 7. Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting 8. By Way of Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Illustration credits, Index of Names

Jan Wim Buisman (1954) wrote numerous publications about the history of the religious mentality and the feeling of nature in the Netherlands from 1750 to 1830. He is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

• Introduction: Lightning after Franklin 1. A New Invention 2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands 3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms 4. Official Religion 5. Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions 6. Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy 7. Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting 8. By Way of Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Illustration credits, Index of Names

Jan Wim Buisman (1954) wrote numerous publications about the history of the religious mentality and the feeling of nature in the Netherlands from 1750 to 1830. He is a retired University Lecturer at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion.

• Introduction: Lightning after Franklin 1. A New Invention 2. The Introduction of the Lightning Rod in the Netherlands 3. Eighteenth-Century Physical Theories on Thunderstorms 4. Official Religion 5. Marginal and Marginalised Religious Reactions 6. Intermezzo: Electrical Nature? The Animated Nature of Theosophy 7. Thunderstorms and Electricity in Poetry, Music, and Painting 8. By Way of Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Illustration credits, Index of Names