Sober, strict, and scriptural : collective memories of John Calvin, 1800-2000 / / edited by Johan de Niet, Herman Paul and Bart Wallet.

• Superior document: Brill's series in church history, v. 38
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Niet, Johan de.; Paul, Herman.; Wallet, Bart.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Brill's series in church history ; v. 38.; Brill's series in church history. Religious history and culture series ; v. 2.
• Physical Description: xiii, 393 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Calvin, history, and memory / Herman Paul and Bart Wallet -- Calvin's image in Catholic France during the nineteenth century / Michele Sacquin -- French Protestants and the legacy of John Calvin: reformer and legislator / Patrick Cabanel -- Issus de Calvin: collective memories of John Calvin in Dutch neo-calvinism / Herman Paul and Johan de Niet -- Calvin's truth and Hungarian religion: remembering a reformer / Botond Gaal -- Calvin in Germany: a marginalized memory / Stefan Laube -- Servetus vs. Calvin: a battle of monuments during the secularization of the French Third Republic / Valentine Zuber -- Calvin in missionary memory and Chinese Protestant identity / Jonathan Seitz -- Calvin and anti-apartheid memory in the Dutch Reformed family of churches in South Africa / Robert Vosloo -- Calvin: a negative boundary marker in American Lutheran self-identity, 1871-1934 / R. Scott Clark -- The Republican reformer: John Calvin and the American calvinists, 1830-1910 / Bryan Bademan -- The image of Calvin within Mormonism / Stephen S. Francis -- Shadow on the Alps: John Calvin and English travellers in Geneva / James Rigney -- The French Barber: Calvin as a source of burlesque in Mark Twain / Joe B. Fulton -- The death of Adam, the resurrection of Calvin: Marilynne Robinson's alternative to an American / Thomas J. Davis.