Table of contents
Forewordix
Abbreviationsxi
Introduction1
1. Dominocratie: Van Gogh and the theologians’ culture in nineteenth-century Holland13
2. The Church versus the sun: substitution of motifs27
3. Light in the darkness: survival of a Christian concept41
4. Japan as primitivistic utopia: Van Gogh’s japonist portraits51
5. “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread”: diggers in the oeuvre of Van Gogh67
6. Christianity versus nature: Emile Zola’s La faute de l’abbé Mouret79
7. Conclusion: triumph and defeat of nature93
Notes99
Appendix I: Chronological tables133
Appendix II: Zionskapel in the Barndesteeg: Van Gogh as a Sunday school teacher157
Selected bibliography159
List of illustrations173
Illustrations181
Photographic acknowledgments273
Index275
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