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"Amsterdamnified!" is a research project based in Canada (UNB-Fredericton and Brock University) with European partners. For the period from 2015 to 2023 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) provided generous funding. The full title of the project is "Religious Dissenters, Spiritualist Ideas and Urban Associationalism in the Emergence of the Early Enlightenment in England and the Low Countries, 1540-1700." The short title is derived from a 1641 pamphlet by the English poet John Taylor.
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We are pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue of Church History and Religious Culture (101: 2-3) that will be published in late July 2021. The theme is “Spiritualism in Early Modern Europe.”
Keywords: lay religion, heterodoxy, the devil, natural philosophy, Enlightenment, Spiritualists, Familists, Mennonites, Socinians, Quakers, David Joris, Baruch de Spinoza, Amsterdam, London.
We are seeking to collaborate with other scholars who are working in the area of spiritualism and spiritualists in Early Modern Europe. Join us!
This post is about the oldest source of the quirky term in our project’s title. In the post we use the source to showcase our use of Voyant Tools for digital text analysis.
We are pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue of Church History and Religious Culture (101: 2-3) that will be published in late July 2021. The theme is “Spiritualism in Early Modern Europe.”
Gary Waite has recently (2019) published Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse: From Religious Enemies to Allies and Friends.
In March 2019 the Amsterdamnified team leaders hosted a symposium for project members and a small number of guests.
Gary K. Waite, “Early Modern Hair: Religion and Ritualized Belief”
A new special issue of Nova Religio (May 2018), guested edited by Michael Driedger and Johannes Wolfart. Free access at http://nr.ucpress.edu/.
From the 27th to the 30th of September several members of the Amsterdamnified Research Team (Ace Gammon-Burnett, Nina Schroeder, Gary Waite, and Mike Driedger) participated in an international conference organized by the Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies in Toronto.Read more
You can now order this collection of essays featuring work by three Amsterdamnified team members (Waite, van Veen, and Driedger). Or find it at your university library.
From the 18th to the 21st of July 2017 Gary Waite and Mike Driedger participated in a conference on “Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Reformation Era” in Nuremberg, Germany.
The links below lead to specialized lists of research resources.
This Bibliography is very much a work in progress. Please do suggest additional works.
A working bibliography. Please suggest additions. Use the comments field or contact Gary Waite or Mike Driedger.
Gary Waite is a professor of history at the University of New Brunswick at Fredericton.
Michael Driedger teaches history at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario.
More details coming soon. The section is currently under construction.
Click here to find out more about the image we use at the top of this website.
We are pleased to announce the publication of a Special Issue of Church History and Religious Culture (101: 2-3) that will be published in late July 2021. The theme is “Spiritualism in Early Modern Europe.”
Gary Waite has recently (2019) published Jews and Muslims in Seventeenth-Century Discourse: From Religious Enemies to Allies and Friends.
In March 2019 the Amsterdamnified team leaders hosted a symposium for project members and a small number of guests.