From martyr to muppy (Mennonite urban professionals): a historical introduction to cultural assimilation processes of a religious minority in the Netherlands, the Mennonites

Contents

The development of Dutch Anabaptism in the light of the European magisterial and Radical Reformation / Alastair Hamilton -- 'The colony of heaven': the Anabaptist aspiration to be a church without spot or wrinkle in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Sjouke Voolstra -- How Protestant are Mennonites / Otto de Jong -- Congregational assimilation in a historical nutshell / Simon Verheus -- Religious freedom and the limits of social assimilation / Edmund Kizik -- Aspects of social criticism and cultural assimilation / Piet Visser -- Mennonites and literature in the seventeenth century / Marijke Spies -- Jan Philipsz Schabaelje, a seventeenth century Dutch Mennonite, and his Wandering Soul / Piet Visser -- A different flavour in a Psalm-minded setting / Louis Peter Grijp -- Waterlanders and the Dutch Golden Age / Mary Sprunger -- Mennonites and war in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Bert Westera -- Mennonites and rationalism in the seventeenth century / Andrew Fix -- Mennonites versus Calvinists / Jelle Bosma -- 'The hymn to freedom' / Sjouke Voolstra -- Men of principles and men of learning / Anton van der Lem.