Johannes Wolfart
Professor
| Degrees: | B.A. (Hons.), Ph.D (Cambridge) |
| Phone: | 613-520-2600 x 2932 |
| Email: | johannes.wolfart@carleton.ca |
| Office: | 2A62 Paterson Hall |
Biography
Johannes Wolfart joined the Faculty of Carleton 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 Carleton 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
Fall 2024 courses
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
- Rh-Award for Research in the Humanities (Manitoba)
- SSHRC Postdoc
- SSHRC General Grant