Calvinism and religious toleration in the Dutch Golden Age / edited by R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop. - Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002. - 1 online resource (viii, 187 pages)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-179) and index.

Introduction / Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia -- 'Dutch' religious tolerance : celebration and revision / Benjamin J. Kaplan -- Religious toleration in the United Provinces : from 'case' to 'model' / Willem Frijhoff -- The bond of Christian piety : the individual practice of tolerance and intolerance in the Dutch Republic / Judith Pollmann -- Religious policies in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic / Joke Spaans -- Paying off the sheriff : strategies of Catholic toleration in Golden Age Holland / Christine Kooi. Sewing the bailiff in a blanket : Catholics and the law in Holland / Henk Van Nierop -- Anabaptism and tolerance : possibilities and limitations / Samme Zijlstra -- Jews and religious toleration in the Dutch Republic / Peter Van Rooden -- Religious toleration and radical philosophy in the later Dutch Golden Age (1668-1710) / Jonathan Israel -- The politics of intolerance : citizenship and religion in the Dutch Republic (seventeenth to eighteenth centuries) / Maarten Prak.

Hsia and van Nierop have brought together an international group of leading historians to probe the history and myth of Dutch religious toleration. Their outstanding essays shed new light on the paradox of the strictly Calvinist, yet tolerant, Dutch Republic in the Golden Age.

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Calvinism--History.--Netherlands
RELIGION--Christianity--General.
RELIGION--Christian Life--Social Issues.
Calvinism.
Calvinisme.
Verdraagzaamheid.


Netherlands--Church history.
Netherlands--History--1648-1795.
Netherlands.
Nederland.

Calvinismo Holanda Historia. Holanda Iglesia Historia.


Electronic books.
Church history.
History.

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