Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age

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

• ISBN13: 9780521173193
• ISBN10: 0521173191
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-12-16
• 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

Introduction

'Dutch' religious tolerance: celebration and revision cBenjamin J. Kaplan

Religious tolerance in the United Provinces: from 'case' to 'model'

The bond of Christian piety: the individual practice of tolerance in Golden Age

Religious policies in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic

Paying off the sheriff: strategies of Catholic toleration in Golden Age

Sewing the bailiff in a blanket: Catholics and the law in Holland

Anabaptism and tolerance: possibilities and limitations

Jews and religious toleration in the Dutch Republic

Religious toleration and radical philosophy in the later Dutch Golden Age

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

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