Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-521-80682-4
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 196 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 443 g

Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness from the sixteenth century to present times. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe, despite being committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church. Professors R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the US, the UK and the Netherlands to probe the history and myth of this Dutch tradition of religious tolerance. This collection of outstanding essays reconsiders and revises contemporary views of Dutch tolerance. Taken as a whole, the volume's innovative scholarship offers unexpected insights into this important topic in religious and cultural history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hsia, R. Po-Chia

Nierop, Henk F. K. van

van Nierop, Henk

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen Reformierte Kirchen, Calvinisten, presbyterianische Kirchen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Hsia, R. Po-Chia
R. Po-chia Hsia is Erwin Earle Sparks Professor of European and Asian History at Pennsylvania State University, Academician at the Academia Sinica, and holder of numerous fellowships in the US and Europe. In addition to professorships in the US, he has also held visiting professorships in the Netherlands and Germany, and has lectured in Portugal, France, Italy, Belgium, Hungary and Taiwan. He is the author or editor of eight books on early modern Europe, including In and Out of the Ghetto: Jewish-Gentile Relations in Late Medieval and Early Modern Germany (Cambridge, 1995) and The World of Catholic Renewal, 1540-1770 (Cambridge, 1998).

van Nierop, Henk
Henk van Nierop is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Amsterdam and Director of the Amsterdam Centre for the Study of the Golden Age. He is the author or editor of a number of books on European and Dutch history, including The Nobility of Holland: From Knights to Regents, 1500-1650 (Cambridge, 1993) (0521 392608).