vanrooden@xs4all.nl
Jo Spaans	Je crois que ce à quoi on doit se référer, ce n’est pas au grand modèle de la langue et des signes, mais de la guerre et de la bataille. L’historicité qui nous importe et nous détermine est belliqueuse; elle n’est pas langagière. Relation de pouvoir, non relation de sens. L’histoire n’a pas de sens, ce qui ne veut pas dire qu’elle est absurde ou incohérente. Michel Foucault I just want to live the life I please I don’t want no enemies I don’t want nothing if I have to fake it Never take nothing don’t belong to me Everything paid for nothing is free Lucinda Williams, ‘I Lost It’ Peter van Rooden is a member of the Research Center Religion and Society of the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his Ph.D. in 1985 at Leiden University (cum laude). His thesis was published in 1989: Theology, Biblical Scholarship and Rabbinical Studies in the Seventeenth Century: Constantijn L' Empereur (1591-1648), Professor of Hebrew and Theology at Leiden (Leiden: Brill). In 1996 he published a study of the radical changes in the relation between religion, society, and political power in the Netherlands since the sixteenth century: Religieuze Regimes. Over godsdienst en maatschappij in Nederland, 1570-1999 (Amsterdam: Bert Bakker). During the academic year 1997/98 he was a visiting professor at the History Department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.	full text of publications