Amsterdamnified!

"Amsterdamnified!" is a research project based in Canada (UNB-Fredericton and Brock University) with European partners. For the period from 2015 to 2020 the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) is providing 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.

Heresy / Hairesy: Your Input?

This is a post-in-progress (last updated: 19 May 2018). Suggestions are welcome! Post them in the comments section of this webpage, or send them to @Mike_Driedger or @Amsterdamnified on Twitter.

New Webhost

Amsterdamnified has a new home on the web. We’ve moved to Reclaim Hosting, a specialist in academic web services. Through Reclaim it’s easier for us to use educational and research applications such as Scalar and Omeka. We also haveRead more

Amsterdamnified! A brief project description

Keywords: lay religion, heterodoxy, the devil, natural philosophy, Enlightenment, Spiritualists, Familists, Mennonites, Socinians, Quakers, David Joris, Baruch de Spinoza, Amsterdam, London.

Email group: “Spiritualist scholars network”

We are seeking to collaborate with other scholars who are working in the area of spiritualism and spiritualists in Early Modern Europe. Join us!

Forthcoming publication

Forthcoming: Gary K. Waite, “Early Modern Hair: Religion and Ritualized Belief”

Reframing the History of New Religious Movements

A new special issue of Nova Religio (May 2018), guested edited by Michael Driedger and Johannes Wolfart. Free access at http://nr.ucpress.edu/.

September 2017 conference

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

2017 publication

You can now order this new collection of essays featuring work by three Amsterdamnified team members (Waite, van Veen, and Driedger). Find it with your preferred search engine. The premier German press Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht is the publisher.

The links below lead to specialized lists of research resources.