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Dr. Johannes Wolfart ( He/Him )

Religion, Professor

• B.A. (Hons.), Ph.D (Cambridge)
• 2A62 Paterson Hall, �Ӱ�ԭ�� University
• 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON, K1S 5B6
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Johannes Wolfart joined the Faculty of �Ӱ�ԭ�� University in 2007. From 1994-1999 he was an assistant professor in the Department and Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. From 1999-2007 he was assistant/associate professor in the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, and a Senior Fellow of St. John’s College there. He has served one term as President of the �Ӱ�ԭ�� University Academic Staff Association and is cross-appointed to the Department of History.

Research Interests

• Early Modern Christianity, especially lesser-known varieties of Protestantism
• The history of historiography, especially as practiced by lesser-known Protestants (so-called “confessional” historiography)
• So-called “religious riots” and, more generally,  “religion and violence.”
• Currently working on a book on the manuscript chronicles of seventeenth-century German Protestants

Selected Publications

Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany (2002)

“Global Yokels: Vernacular Manuscript Chronicles and Urban Identity in Early Modern Germany” in: Clark, Owens and Smith, eds., City Limits: Perspectives on the Historical European City  (2010)

“Revisiting the Confessional: Donald Wiebe’s “Small ‘c’ Confessional,” Its Historical Entailments and Linguistic Entanglements” in: Arnal, Braun and McCutcheon, eds.,  Failure and Nerve in the Academic Study of Religion(2012)

“Why Was There Even a Reformation in Lindau? The Myth and Mystery of Lindau’s Conflict-Free Reformation” Renaissance and Reformation 40/4 (2017): 43-72.

“Increasing Religious Diversity: Historiographical Criticism of Current Paradigm” Nova Religio 21/4 (2018): 63-87.

Awards

• SSHRC General Grant
• Rh-Award for Research in the Humanities (Manitoba)
• SSHRC Postdoc