Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness since the sixteenth century. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe. Paradoxically, it was committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church and also to the preservation of religious plurality. R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the U.K., the U.S. and the Netherlands. Their outstanding essays probe the history and myth of Dutch religious toleration.
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"Together these essays present a very valuable discussion of the practice of religious toleration set in the social and religious context of the Dutch Republic and confronted with the often very divergent principles of tolerance and intolerance." Renaissance Quarterly
"Dutch society was an interesting amalgam of intense religious passion combined with a willingness to endure other faiths, and these essays provide useful perspectives on a fasinating topic. Recommended for all academic libraries." Catholic Library World
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"The strength of this collection is that it provides much more than a series of detailed case studies. The synthesis provided by the earlier essays in the volume provides the broad context against which the experiences of different religious communities can be understood. It makes an important contribution to the literature on religious toleration during the early modern period." Sixteenth Century Journal Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University
"Dutch society was an interesting amalgam of intense religious passion combined with a willingness to endure other faiths, and these essays provide useful perspectives on a fasinating topic. Recommended for all academic libraries." Catholic Library World
"These essays provide useful perspectives on a fascinating topic. Recommended for all academic libraries." Choice
"The strength of this collection is that it provides much more than a series of detailed case studies. The synthesis provided by the earlier essays in the volume provides the broad context against which the experiences of different religious communities can be understood. It makes an important contribution to the literature on religious toleration during the early modern period." Sixteenth Century Journal Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University
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Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness since the sixteenth century. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe. Paradoxically, it was committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church and also to the preservation of religious plurality. R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the UK, the US and the Netherlands. Their outstanding essays probe the history and myth of Dutch religious toleration.
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Our collection of essays focuses on the making of this toleration in the Dutch Golden Age, on the structure, contingency, agency, mechanism, and limitations of religious pluralism and toleration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
religions vryheyt, coexistence confessionnelle, schijn van verdraagzaamheid, van een joodse minderheid, publieke kerk, zestiende eeuw tot heden, stedelijke cultuur, kerkelijk leven, des geloofs, unlimited tolerance, achttiende eeuw, zeventiende eeuw, gereformeerde kerk, confessional state, recognition money, apostolic vicars, different confessions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dutch Republic, United Provinces, New York, Golden Age, Posthumus Meyjes, Low Countries, States of Holland, The Emergence of Tolerance, Dutch Catholics, Jonathan Israel, Enno van Gelder, Roman Catholics, Willem Frijhoff, Intellectual Debate, Peter van Rooden, Calvinist Church, Synod of Dordt, Union of Utrecht, North Holland, United Congregations, Andrew Pettegree, Arnoldus Buchelius, Caspar Barlaeus, Roman Law, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus New!
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Our collection of essays focuses on the making of this toleration in the Dutch Golden Age, on the structure, contingency, agency, mechanism, and limitations of religious pluralism and toleration. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
religions vryheyt, coexistence confessionnelle, schijn van verdraagzaamheid, van een joodse minderheid, publieke kerk, zestiende eeuw tot heden, stedelijke cultuur, kerkelijk leven, des geloofs, unlimited tolerance, achttiende eeuw, zeventiende eeuw, gereformeerde kerk, confessional state, recognition money, apostolic vicars, different confessions Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dutch Republic, United Provinces, New York, Golden Age, Posthumus Meyjes, Low Countries, States of Holland, The Emergence of Tolerance, Dutch Catholics, Jonathan Israel, Enno van Gelder, Roman Catholics, Willem Frijhoff, Intellectual Debate, Peter van Rooden, Calvinist Church, Synod of Dordt, Union of Utrecht, North Holland, United Congregations, Andrew Pettegree, Arnoldus Buchelius, Caspar Barlaeus, Roman Law, Tractatus Theologico-Politicus New!
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- The Emergence of Tolerance in the Dutch Republic (Studies in the History of Christian Thought) by Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck on 15 pages
- Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation by Ole Peter Grell on 7 pages
- Tractatus Theologico-Politicus (Gephardt Edition 1925) by Benedictus de Spinoza on 5 pages
- The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century (European History in Perspective) by J. L. Price on 4 pages
- Hebrews of the Portuguese Nation: Conversos and Community in Early Modern Amsterdam (The Modern Jewish Experience) by Miriam Bodian on page 74, page 173, and Back Matter
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- The Dutch Republic in the Seventeenth Century: The Golden Age by Maarten Prak in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Witch as Muse: Art, Gender, and Power in Early Modern Europe by Linda C. Hults in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Shapers of the Great Debate on the Freedom of Religion: A Biographical Dictionary (Shapers of the Great American Debates) by Jonathan A. Wright on page 46
- The Age of Reason: From the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, 1570-1789 (Baker History of the Church) by Meic Pearse in Back Matter
- Craft Guilds in the Early Modern Low Countries: Work, Power And Representation by Maarten Roy Prak in Back Matter
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