Trajecta - Volume 31, Issue 2, 2023

Abstract ‘Free at last!’ The words come from Reverend Martin Luther King’s famous speech ‘I have a dream’ from August 1963.2 The speech and those words evocate all what the sixties stand for – but also some of the dilemmas and paradoxes of the historiography of the period. The religious dimension in the speech is evident. However, there is virtually no room for religion in the general (political, social and cultural) historiogr Read More

Abstract The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as LDS or Mormon Church, translates its originally English scriptures worldwide, also in Dutch for its 10,000 members in the Low Lands. The focus in this article is on the Book of Mormon, written in an English biblical style of the 1600s, first translated in Dutch in 1890 and followed by several revisions and a retranslation. This article sketches how LDS tr Read More

Abstract The contribution of the Dutch Roman Catholic Church in the resettlement policy of collaborators after the Second World War has generally been acknowledge, although the Catholic charity organisations which took part in this process, especially the so-called Dutch Vatican Mission (Nederlandse Vaticaan Missie, NVM) and her successor the Dutch Charity Mission (Nederlandse Caritas Missie, NCM) has hardly been sub Read More