Enlightened Religion

From Confessional Churches to Polite Piety in the Dutch Republic
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-29892-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 297, 378 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 703 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

The history of the relation between religion and Enlightenment has been virtually rewritten In recent decades. The idea of a fairly unidirectional ‘rise of paganism’, or ‘secularisation’, has been replaced by a much more variegated panorama of interlocking changes—not least in the nature of both religion and rationalism. This volume explores developments in various cultural fields—from lexicology to geographical exploration, and from philosophy and history to theology, media and the arts—involved in the transformation of worldviews in the decades around 1700. The main focus is on the Dutch Republic, where discussion culture was more inclusive than in most other countries, and where people from very different walks of life joined the conversation.

Contributors include: Wiep van Bunge, Frank Daudeij, Martin Gierl, Albert Gootjes, Trudelien van ‘t Hof, Jonathan Israel, Henri Krop, Fred van Lieburg, Jaap Nieuwstraten, Joke Spaans, Jetze Touber, and Arthur Weststeijn.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Spaans, Joke

Touber, Jetze

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Aufklärung
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Illustrations

About the Authors

Introduction: Enlightened Religion: From Confessional Churches to Polite Piety in the Dutch Republic

Joke Spaans and Jetze Touber

PART 1: Trends

1 From Religion in the Singular to Religions in the Plural: 1700, a Faultline in the Conceptual History of Religion

Henri Krop

2 Tracing the Human Past: The Art of Writing Between Human Ingenuity and Divine Agency in Early Modern World History

Jetze Touber

3 Colonies of Concord: Religious Escapism and Experimentation in Dutch Overseas Expansion, ca. 1650–1700

Arthur Weststeijn

4 Negotiating Ideas: The Communicative Constitution of Pietist Theology within the Lutheran Church

Martin Gierl

5 The Collegie der Sçavanten: A Seventeenth-Century Cartesian Scholarly Society in Utrecht

Albert Gootjes

part 2: Individuals

6 “Let no citizen be treated as lesser, because of his confession”: Religious Tolerance and Civility in De Hooghe’s Spiegel van Staat (1706–7)

Frank Daudeij

7 The Power of Custom and the Question of Religious Toleration in the Works of Marcus Zuerius Boxhorn (1612–1653): An Investigation into the Sources of the Transformation of Religion around 1700

Jaap Nieuwstraten

8 Romeyn de Hooghe’s Hieroglyphica: An Ambivalent Lexicographical History of Religion

Trudelien van ’t Hof

9 Popularizing Radical Ideas in the Dutch Art World of the Early Eighteenth Century: Willem Goeree (1635–1711) and Arnold Houbraken (1660–1719)

Jonathan Israel

10 Bayle’s Skepticism Revisited

Wiep van Bunge

11 Between the Catechism and the Microscope: The World of Johannes Duijkerius

Joke Spaans

12 Warning against the Pietists: The World of Wilhelmus à Brakel

Fred van Lieburg

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Joke Spaans, Ph.D. (1989, Leiden University), is Associate Professor for the history of Christianity at Utrecht University. She publishes on early modern Dutch religious history — her most recent monograph is Graphic Satire and Religious Change, The Dutch Republic 1676-1707 (Brill, 2011).

Jetze Touber, Ph.D. (2009, Groningen University), is Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of History, Ghent University. He has published on the interrelations between religion, scholarship and science in early modern Europe, including the monograph Spinoza and Biblical Philology in the Dutch Republic (1660-1710) (Oxford University Press, 2018).