Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's golden age
Subtitle: heretics and idolaters
By: Christine Kooi
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781107023246; 9781107616554
Subjects: Calvinism; HISTORY / Europe / General; Church history; Reformed Church; Catholic Church; History
Description: "This book examines the social, political and religious relationships between Calvinists and Catholics during Holland's Golden Age. Although Holland, the largest province of the Dutch Republic, was officially Calvinist, its population was one of the most religiously heterogeneous in early modern Europe. The Catholic Church was officially disestablished in the 1570s, yet by the 1620s Catholicism underwent a revival, flourishing in a semi-clandestine private sphere. The book focuses on how Reformed Protestants dealt with this revived Catholicism, arguing that confessional coexistence between Calvinists and Catholics operated within a number of contiguous and overlapping social, political and cultural spaces. The result was a paradox: a society that was at once Calvinist and pluralist. Christine Kooi maps the daily interactions between people of different faiths and examines how religious boundaries were negotiated during an era of tumultuous religious change"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; 1. War and peace; 2. Priests and preachers; 3. Persecution and toleration; 4. Converts and apostates; 5. Kith and kin; Conclusion.