Dear visitor,
Welcome to my website! I am a scholar of Slavery and Religion, especially Christianity. After studying theology, ancient history, philosophy and international relations, I obtained my PhD degree at Tilburg University with a study on slavery in Early Christian and Early Rabbinic parables. I continued my academic career as a postdoctoral researcher at the Protestant Theological University (PThU), within the NWO-research project “Church and Slavery in the Dutch Empire: History, Theology and Heritage” (see www.kerkenslavernij.nl). A few of my most notable publications in English are (for the complete list see here):
- Harinck, G. & Stoutjesdijk, M. (eds.), The Curse of Ham in the Dutch Colonial Empire. Its History, Functions and Effects. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2026/27. Submitted.
- Stoutjesdijk, M. “Washing the Ethiopian Eunuch White. Biblical Exegesis and Early Modern Dutch Discourses on Race, Slavery, and Christianity.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies 24:3-4 (2025). In press.
- Stoutjesdijk, M. “The Spirit of Christianity: A Thorny Answer to the Theological Crisis of Dutch Abolitionism.” Global Intellectual History 10:9 (2025), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2025.2592130
- Laarman, V., and Stoutjesdijk, M. ” ‘Many shall come from the East and West’. Baptism Announcements of African and Asian Reformed Christians in the Eighteenth Century Dutch Republic.” BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review 140:2 (2025), 6-30. https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.19341
- Stoutjesdijk, M. ” ‘Clearly Counter to the Spirit of Christianity’? The Church in the History of Dutch Slavery.” Pages 379-388 in Slavery & the Dutch State. Dutch Colonial Slavery and Its Afterlives. Edited by Rose Mary Allen, Esther Captain, Matthias van Rossum and Urwin Vyent. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2025.
- Stoutjesdijk, M. “You Are My Slaves.” A Comparative Study of the Slavery Metaphor in Early Rabbinic and Early Christian Parables. Jewish and Christian Perspectives 41. Leiden: Brill, 2025.
- Stoutjesdijk, M. “Church Slavery in Dutch Colonial History: Some Explorations and Questions with regard to Suriname.” Church History and Religious Culture 105 (2025): 103-127. https://doi.org/10.1163/18712428-bja10067
- Oegema, A., Pater, J., & Stoutjesdijk, M. (eds.). Parables and Fables in the Graeco-Roman World. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament I. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.
If you want to get in touch with me, you can get reach me through my university email address: mjstoutjesdijk[at]pthu.nl.