From martyr to muppy (Mennonite urban professionals)
Subtitle: a historical introduction to cultural assimilation processes of a religious minority in the Netherlands, the Mennonites
By: edited by Alastair Hamilton, Sjouke Voolstra and Piet Visser (general editor).
Contributors: Hamilton, Alastair, 1941-; Voolstra, S. 1942-; Visser, Piet, 1949-
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: [Amsterdam, Netherlands]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Mennonites -- Netherlands -- History; Mennonites -- Netherlands -- Social conditions; Assimilation (Sociology) -- Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographies and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The development of Dutch Anabaptism in the light of the European magisterial and Radical Reformation / Alastair Hamilton; title: 'The colony of heaven': the Anabaptist aspiration to be a church without spot or wrinkle in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Sjouke Voolstra; title: How Protestant are Mennonites / Otto de Jong; title: Congregational assimilation in a historical nutshell / Simon Verheus; title: Religious freedom and the limits of social assimilation / Edmund Kizik; title: Aspects of social criticism and cultural assimilation / Piet Visser; title: Mennonites and literature in the seventeenth century / Marijke Spies; title: Jan Philipsz Schabaelje, a seventeenth century Dutch Mennonite, and his Wandering Soul / Piet Visser; title: A different flavour in a Psalm-minded setting / Louis Peter Grijp; title: Waterlanders and the Dutch Golden Age / Mary Sprunger; title: Mennonites and war in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Bert Westera; title: Mennonites and rationalism in the seventeenth century / Andrew Fix; title: Mennonites versus Calvinists / Jelle Bosma; title: 'The hymn to freedom' / Sjouke Voolstra; title: Men of principles and men of learning / Anton van der Lem.