Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age

by Edited by R. Po-Chia Hsia , Henk Van Nierop

• ISBN13: 9780521806824
• ISBN10: 0521806828
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-08-26
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction R. Po-Chia Hsia

2. 'Dutch' religious tolerance: celebration and revision Benjamin J. Kaplan

3. Religious tolerance in the United Provinces: from 'case' to 'model' Willem Frijhoff

4. The bond of Christian piety: the individual practice of tolerance in Golden Age Holland Judith Pollmann

5. Religious policies in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic Joke Spaans

6. Paying off the sheriff: strategies of Catholic toleration in Golden Age Holland Christine Kooi

7. Sewing the bailiff in a blanket: Catholics and the law in Holland Henk van Nierop

8. Anabaptism and tolerance: possibilities and limitations Samme Zijlstra

9. Jews and religious toleration in the Dutch Republic Peter van Rooden

10. Religious toleration and radical philosophy in the later Dutch Golden Age Jonathan Israel

11. The politics of intolerance: citizenship and religion in the Dutch Republic (17th-18th centuries) Maarten Prak.