Religious policies in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic

Bibliographic Data

ID23148170
AuthorsJoke Spaans (0000-0002-2703-8346, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author)
Year2002
Pages72-86
Publication date2002-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeCHAPTER
VenueCalvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511496769.005
OpenAlexW2124130967
ISBN9780511496769
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited11

There is a general and long-standing agreement among historians that the Dutch Republic was tolerant on the issue of religion. Still, it is not at all easy to determine how this celebrated toleration actually worked out in practice. It is evident that religious toleration was a hotly debated issue. Jonathan Israel has recently mapped out these discussions and the shifts in their focus. This makes religious toleration an obvious object of study in the history of ideas. The leap from these ideas and discussions to the practicalities that ruled interconfessional relations in the Dutch Republic is seldom attempted, partly because our knowledge of toleration in practice, and why it worked the way it did, is still highly impressionistic.

Epistemology · Focus (optics) · Linguistics · Object (grammar) · Political science · Politics · Sociology · The Republic · Toleration · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity · Religious Education and Schools · Religious studies

Tools

Open DOISci-HubOpen Access