Contents -- List of Plates -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Religion in the World of Early Modern Communication -- Prints and Pamphlets -- Interesting Times -- Contention over Theology and Civil Religion -- Religion, Media and Censorship -- Composition of this Book -- 2. Cleansing the Temple and Burying the Disciple of Aristotle -- The Momma-Affair -- Political Culture -- Theology -- The Clash -- The Sequel -- Zeeland's Evil Spirit -- The Ecclesiastical Funeral Cortege -- Defining True Religion -- 3. The Wheelbarrow, the Night-Soil Cart and the Chariot of Peace -- Hoppeans and Germans -- Ministers and Lay Leaders -- Contested Elections -- A War over Popular Franchise -- A Local Media Storm -- Ecclesiastical Conflict in Cartoons -- 4. Fortune-Seekers and Rebels -- Expansion and the Search for Space -- The New or Round Church -- Centrifugal Tendencies -- A Theological Wagon-Race -- The Ills of the Church -- 5. Visions of Times and Eternity -- Fascination with the Millennium -- Rallying the Saints -- Rahabs in Action -- Rothé's Fall -- Cartoon or Emblem? -- Plates -- 6. The Alphen Pig War -- A Church Divided -- The Pigs' Attack -- Lamenting the Pig War -- 7. Popish Angels and Demons -- The Frisian Hercules -- Bible Translation under Fire -- From Amsterdam to Ysenborgh -- Again a Riddle of Dates -- Towards the Peace of the Church -- 8. Hieroglyphs and Spectatorial Satire -- A Fox Preaching the Passion -- Mission or Church? -- Jansenism -- Priestcraft and the Pope's Mule -- Religion, Politics and Enlightenment -- 9. Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Archival and Manuscript Sources -- Printed Sources -- Literature -- Index.