Johannes C. Wolfart

Biography

Johannes Wolfart hails from Winnipeg, Manitoba. He studied at Cambridge University, where he completed his doctorate in 1992, and at Princeton University, where he was a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History from 1992-94. From 1994-99 he was an assistant professor in the Department Religion at Erindale College and in the Centre for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. From 1999-2007 he was a member of the Department of Religion at the University of Manitoba, where he became an associate professor and a senior fellow of St John’s College. He joined the faculty of Carleton University in 2007.

Research Interests

• Modern Christianity, especially lesser-known varieties of early modern Protestantism.
• The history of historiography, especially as practiced by lesser-known early modern Protestants.
• Currently working on a book on the historical writing of 17th century German Protestants.
• A long-standing interest in so-called “religious riots” and, more generally, in “religion and violence.”

2010-11 Courses

• RELI 2210A Christianity (F)
• RELI 3220A Reformation Europe (W)

Select Publications

Religion, Government and Political Culture in Early Modern Germany: Lindau 1520-1628 (2002); “Postmodernism” in: W. Braun and R. McCutcheon, eds., Guide to the Study of Religion (2000);

Rethinking Religion 101: Praxis, Pedagogy and the Religion Question (forthcoming volume co-edited with Bradford Verter).

Awards

• Rh-Award (Jr.) for Research in the Humanities; SSHRC General Grant (currently held).