Tim Verhoeven
Biographic Data
| ID | 1224062 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tim Verhoeven |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tim |
| FAMILY NAME | Verhoeven |
| SIGNATURE | VERHOEVEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9628-034X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was the centre of a sexual scandal involving a married woman. The career of Capel illustrates a littl…
My how I have walked and worked to get those names
This article analyses the evolution of mass petitioning within the woman suffrage movement in the United States, with a focus on the decade leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment (1920). Its central argument is that suffrage activists skilfully and imaginatively refashioned what was a venerable form of mobilization. In their hands, the petition served a range of purposes beyond enacting legislative change. It was a fulcrum for publi…
Il Nous Faut les Hommes’
This article investigates a campaign by the French Catholic Church to bring men to Mass in the first decades of the Third Republic. Historians have long noted the gender imbalance in religious practice in France in this era. Less attention has been paid, however, to the mobilization on the part of leading clerics to tackle the problem of male religious indifference. This response took the form of a range of initiatives – pastoral visits, male-onl…
Clerical Child Sexual Abuse and the Culture Wars in France, 1891–1913
This article investigates clerical child sexual abuse in the first decades of the French Third Republic. Thanks in large part to the difficulty of accessing relevant archival records, we know very little about this crime or how it was investigated by judicial officials. This study addresses this gap by drawing on a rich and untapped collection of correspondence between local prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice in Paris. The files reveal the p…
La Loi de 1905 n’aura pas lieu
Jean Baubérot is a prolific historian of laïcité with an admirable habit of upending some of the received wisdom on the subject. Scholars and commentators invariably see the French attitude to faith as marked by hostility, fear and suspicion. Yet as Baubérot has argued in a series of works aimed at both an academic and general audience, there has never been a single understanding of laïcité, and even a cursory glance at the historical record show…
Sexual Scandal and Catholicism in Victorian England
This article investigates a sexual scandal that rocked the English Catholic Church in the Victorian era. Though forgotten today, Monsignor Thomas John Capel was one of the most famous clerics in the Victorian Church. His career fell into turmoil when, in 1879, Cardinal Henry Edward Manning launched a diocesan commission to investigate charges of sexual misconduct involving three women. Drawing on a series of rich and as yet unexplored archival so…
N athan G. A lexander . Race in a Godless World
A French dandy in New York
The Gospel According to Renan
Upon its publication in 1863, Ernest Renan’s Vie de Jésus was an immediate literary sensation. Applauded and reviled in equal measure, the book became the touchstone for a wider debate about the place of religious belief in a modern educated nation. Yet scholarly interest in the Vie de Jésus has lagged in comparison to Renan’s other writings, notably his famous lecture ‘What is a nation?’. Robert D. Priest puts the focus squarely on Renan’s most …
A Perfect Jesuit in Petticoats”
This article investigates one of the most curious figures in the anti-Jesuit arsenal, the female Jesuit, or Jesuitess. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, opponents of the Jesuits in a range of nations warned that the bedrock institutions of society were vulnerable to infiltration by this figure who in their mind combined Jesuit cunning with feminine charm. This made the female Jesuit, in words that were repeated in exposés of the So…
An Encouraging Precedent”
This article examines the role of the United States in the long French debate over separating church and state. From the visit of Alexis de Tocqueville to the 1905 law, key constituencies studied closely the American experience, debated its merits, and argued over its applicability to France. What emerged was a complex pattern of engagement. Depending on their particular domestic imperatives, French observers saw an American system that enshrined…
Pathologizing Male Desire
O n 9 n O v e m b e r 1888 p O l i c e in the Whitechapel quarter of London’s East End discovered the body of Mary Kelly. She was the fifth victim of the killer whom the press had already dubbed Jack the Ripper, and her disfigured corpse showed that his brutality was escalating. After murdering Kelly, the Ripper spent two hours mutilating her body. Desperate for clues, police called in Dr. Thomas Bond to perform an autopsy. Bond, however, also of…
Harmful or Benign? Transnational Medical Networks and the Celibacy of Priests
This article investigates the nineteenth‐century debate within transnational medical networks about the physiological effects of celibacy for priests. Many doctors, motivated in part by their animosity towards the C atholic C hurch, argued that the vow of celibacy was not only futile, but responsible for sexual immorality in the church. However, medical opinion was never uniform, and other doctors rallied to the church, defending the celibate vow…
AndrewPreston
And yet, for the most part, Green believes and writes that she and we are already on the other side of the great divide between modernism and post-modernism, and that means she has a deep epistemological abyss to cross: how do you discuss rabbinical writings and ancient Jewish practices sympathetically and sensitively, while at the same time basing your study on the assumptions of feminism, deconstructionism, and Foucauldian power structures?Her …
John M.Barry
HalvorMoxnes
The Case for Sunday Mails
In the years 1828–31, thousands of Americans joined a fierce public debate over an issue that, while appearing trivial to a modern eye, exposed differing visions of the meaning of the First Amendment and the limits of religious influence in a republican government. That issue was Sunday mails. Under the 1825 federal law regulating the post office, postmasters were obliged to open their offices “on every day on which a mail shall arrive” and to de…
In Defense of Civil and Religious Liberty
The decades before the Civil War witnessed a series of battles over the meaning and legal status of the American Sabbath. Scholarship has focused on the Sabbatarian movement, a cluster of evangelical churches that sought to institutionalize the Sunday Sabbath. This article takes a new approach by investigating the anti-Sabbatarian movement. In a series of controversies, from Sunday mail in the Jacksonian era to the running of Sunday streetcars on…
The satyriasis diagnosis
Shadow and Light
This article is a study of a neglected yet significant French writer on the United States, Louis-Xavier Eyma (1816–76). In the period of the Second Empire (1852–70), Eyma wrote more about the United States than any other author, and was recognised as a reliable and influential guide to US society. What makes his career particularly interesting is that his work defies any simple categorisation. Whilst elements of his writings smack of anti-America…
Entries
Neither Male nor Female
This article examines the use of androgyny as a conceptual tool to describe the apparent menace posed by the Jesuit order in France in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Employing a theory first utilised by the historian Róisín Healy, this article suggests that French anti-Jesuits perceived the Jesuit to embody a mix of female and male traits. On one level the Jesuit was described as passive and submissive, traits generally associated …
A French dandy in New York
An Encouraging Precedent”
This article examines the role of the United States in the long French debate over separating church and state. From the visit of Alexis de Tocqueville to the 1905 law, key constituencies studied closely the American experience, debated its merits, and argued over its applicability to France. What emerged was a complex pattern of engagement. Depending on their particular domestic imperatives, French observers saw an American system that enshrined…
The Case for Sunday Mails
In the years 1828–31, thousands of Americans joined a fierce public debate over an issue that, while appearing trivial to a modern eye, exposed differing visions of the meaning of the First Amendment and the limits of religious influence in a republican government. That issue was Sunday mails. Under the 1825 federal law regulating the post office, postmasters were obliged to open their offices “on every day on which a mail shall arrive” and to de…
Neither Male nor Female
This article examines the use of androgyny as a conceptual tool to describe the apparent menace posed by the Jesuit order in France in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Employing a theory first utilised by the historian Róisín Healy, this article suggests that French anti-Jesuits perceived the Jesuit to embody a mix of female and male traits. On one level the Jesuit was described as passive and submissive, traits generally associated …
Neither Male nor Female
This article examines the use of androgyny as a conceptual tool to describe the apparent menace posed by the Jesuit order in France in the middle decades of the nineteenth century. Employing a theory first utilised by the historian Róisín Healy, this article suggests that French anti-Jesuits perceived the Jesuit to embody a mix of female and male traits. On one level the Jesuit was described as passive and submissive, traits generally associated …
Entries
The satyriasis diagnosis
Shadow and Light
This article is a study of a neglected yet significant French writer on the United States, Louis-Xavier Eyma (1816–76). In the period of the Second Empire (1852–70), Eyma wrote more about the United States than any other author, and was recognised as a reliable and influential guide to US society. What makes his career particularly interesting is that his work defies any simple categorisation. Whilst elements of his writings smack of anti-America…
AndrewPreston
And yet, for the most part, Green believes and writes that she and we are already on the other side of the great divide between modernism and post-modernism, and that means she has a deep epistemological abyss to cross: how do you discuss rabbinical writings and ancient Jewish practices sympathetically and sensitively, while at the same time basing your study on the assumptions of feminism, deconstructionism, and Foucauldian power structures?Her …
John M.Barry
HalvorMoxnes
The Case for Sunday Mails
In the years 1828–31, thousands of Americans joined a fierce public debate over an issue that, while appearing trivial to a modern eye, exposed differing visions of the meaning of the First Amendment and the limits of religious influence in a republican government. That issue was Sunday mails. Under the 1825 federal law regulating the post office, postmasters were obliged to open their offices “on every day on which a mail shall arrive” and to de…
In Defense of Civil and Religious Liberty
The decades before the Civil War witnessed a series of battles over the meaning and legal status of the American Sabbath. Scholarship has focused on the Sabbatarian movement, a cluster of evangelical churches that sought to institutionalize the Sunday Sabbath. This article takes a new approach by investigating the anti-Sabbatarian movement. In a series of controversies, from Sunday mail in the Jacksonian era to the running of Sunday streetcars on…
Pathologizing Male Desire
O n 9 n O v e m b e r 1888 p O l i c e in the Whitechapel quarter of London’s East End discovered the body of Mary Kelly. She was the fifth victim of the killer whom the press had already dubbed Jack the Ripper, and her disfigured corpse showed that his brutality was escalating. After murdering Kelly, the Ripper spent two hours mutilating her body. Desperate for clues, police called in Dr. Thomas Bond to perform an autopsy. Bond, however, also of…
Harmful or Benign? Transnational Medical Networks and the Celibacy of Priests
This article investigates the nineteenth‐century debate within transnational medical networks about the physiological effects of celibacy for priests. Many doctors, motivated in part by their animosity towards the C atholic C hurch, argued that the vow of celibacy was not only futile, but responsible for sexual immorality in the church. However, medical opinion was never uniform, and other doctors rallied to the church, defending the celibate vow…
A Perfect Jesuit in Petticoats”
This article investigates one of the most curious figures in the anti-Jesuit arsenal, the female Jesuit, or Jesuitess. In the middle decades of the nineteenth century, opponents of the Jesuits in a range of nations warned that the bedrock institutions of society were vulnerable to infiltration by this figure who in their mind combined Jesuit cunning with feminine charm. This made the female Jesuit, in words that were repeated in exposés of the So…
An Encouraging Precedent”
This article examines the role of the United States in the long French debate over separating church and state. From the visit of Alexis de Tocqueville to the 1905 law, key constituencies studied closely the American experience, debated its merits, and argued over its applicability to France. What emerged was a complex pattern of engagement. Depending on their particular domestic imperatives, French observers saw an American system that enshrined…
A French dandy in New York
The Gospel According to Renan
Upon its publication in 1863, Ernest Renan’s Vie de Jésus was an immediate literary sensation. Applauded and reviled in equal measure, the book became the touchstone for a wider debate about the place of religious belief in a modern educated nation. Yet scholarly interest in the Vie de Jésus has lagged in comparison to Renan’s other writings, notably his famous lecture ‘What is a nation?’. Robert D. Priest puts the focus squarely on Renan’s most …
N athan G. A lexander . Race in a Godless World
La Loi de 1905 n’aura pas lieu
Jean Baubérot is a prolific historian of laïcité with an admirable habit of upending some of the received wisdom on the subject. Scholars and commentators invariably see the French attitude to faith as marked by hostility, fear and suspicion. Yet as Baubérot has argued in a series of works aimed at both an academic and general audience, there has never been a single understanding of laïcité, and even a cursory glance at the historical record show…
Sexual Scandal and Catholicism in Victorian England
This article investigates a sexual scandal that rocked the English Catholic Church in the Victorian era. Though forgotten today, Monsignor Thomas John Capel was one of the most famous clerics in the Victorian Church. His career fell into turmoil when, in 1879, Cardinal Henry Edward Manning launched a diocesan commission to investigate charges of sexual misconduct involving three women. Drawing on a series of rich and as yet unexplored archival so…
Il Nous Faut les Hommes’
This article investigates a campaign by the French Catholic Church to bring men to Mass in the first decades of the Third Republic. Historians have long noted the gender imbalance in religious practice in France in this era. Less attention has been paid, however, to the mobilization on the part of leading clerics to tackle the problem of male religious indifference. This response took the form of a range of initiatives – pastoral visits, male-onl…
Clerical Child Sexual Abuse and the Culture Wars in France, 1891–1913
This article investigates clerical child sexual abuse in the first decades of the French Third Republic. Thanks in large part to the difficulty of accessing relevant archival records, we know very little about this crime or how it was investigated by judicial officials. This study addresses this gap by drawing on a rich and untapped collection of correspondence between local prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice in Paris. The files reveal the p…
My how I have walked and worked to get those names
This article analyses the evolution of mass petitioning within the woman suffrage movement in the United States, with a focus on the decade leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment (1920). Its central argument is that suffrage activists skilfully and imaginatively refashioned what was a venerable form of mobilization. In their hands, the petition served a range of purposes beyond enacting legislative change. It was a fulcrum for publi…
Transatlantic Anti‐Catholicism and Sexual Scandal
This article investigates the public scandal that enveloped a famous English priest who was living in the United States. Monsignor Thomas John Capel (1836–1911) was one of the stars of the English Church in the Victorian era. Following a disciplinary process for breaking his vow of chastity, the Vatican dispatched him to America, where in 1886 he was the centre of a sexual scandal involving a married woman. The career of Capel illustrates a littl…
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