Religious History and Culture Series

Joris van Eijnatten (PhD 1993, VU University Amsterdam) is full professor and Chair of Cultural History at Utrecht University. During his career as a historian he has concentrated on three overlapping and interrelated fields: the history of ideas, the history of religion, and the history of media and communication. He has published about 10 books and close to a hundred articles and contributions to books, including Mutua Christianorum Tolerantia: The Stinstra Affair 1740-1745 (Olschki, 1998), Liberty and Concord in the United Provinces (Brill, 2003) and Preacher, Sermon and Cultural Change in the Long Eighteenth Century (Brill, 2009). He is currently writing Willem Bilderdijk, Lord of Teisterbant. Metaphysics, Religion and Politics in the Age of Revolutions, and a book on the history of communication.
Fred van Lieburg (PhD 1996, VU University Amsterdam) is professor of the History of Dutch Protestantism at VU University Amsterdam. Over the years, he has developed considerable expertise on various topics, including Reformed church life, Pietist lay religion, and Protestant oral traditions. His recent publications include the edited volumes Confessionalism and Pietism: Religious Reform in Early Modern Europe and North America (Von Zabern, 2006), Pietism, Revivalism and Modernity, 1650-1850 (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008), and The Synod of Dordt Revisited (Brill, 2010). In cooperation with Joris van Eijnatten, he wrote a textbook on the history of religion in the Netherlands (Nederlandse religiegeschiedenis, Verloren 2005, German translation with Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2010).