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

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.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Calvin, History, and Memory, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet1. Calvin’s Image in Catholic France during the Nineteenth Century, Michèle Sacquin2. French Protestants and the Legacy of John Calvin: Reformer and Legislator, Patrick Cabanel3. Issus de Calvin: Collective Memories of John Calvin in Dutch Neo-Calvinism, Herman Paul and Johan de Niet4. “Calvin’s Truth” And “Hungarian Religion”: Remembering a Reformer, Botond Gaál5. Calvin in Germany: A Marginalized Memory, Stefan Laube6. Servetus vs. Calvin: A Battle of Monuments during the Secularization of the French Third Republic, Valentine Zuber7. Calvin in Missionary Memory and Chinese Protestant Identity, Jonathan Seitz8. Calvin and Anti-Apartheid Memory in the Dutch Reformed Family of Churches in South Africa, Robert Vosloo9. Calvin: A Negative Boundary Marker in American Lutheran Self-Identity, 1871-1934, R. Scott Clark10. “The Republican Reformer”: John Calvin and the American Calvinists, 1830-1910, R. Bryan Bademan11. The Image of Calvin within Mormonism, Stephen S. Francis12. Shadow on the Alps: John Calvin and English Travellers in Geneva, James Rigney13. “The French Barber”: Calvin as a Source of Burlesque in Mark Twain, Joe B. Fulton14. The Death of Adam, the Resurrection of Calvin: Marilynne Robinson’s Alternative to an American Ideograph, Thomas J. DavisIndex of Persons

"Sober, Strict, and Scriptural is an important collection of essays which should be of interest to scholars across the spectrum of religious, cultural and historical studies."John W. de Gruchy, University of Cape Town. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 62, No. 1 (2011), pp. 192-193.