Calvinism and Religious Toleration in the Dutch Golden Age (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521806824)

Dutch society has enjoyed a reputation, or notoriety, for permissiveness since the sixteenth century. The Dutch Republic in the Golden Age was the only society that tolerated religious dissenters of all persuasions in early modern Europe. Paradoxically, it was committed to a strictly Calvinist public Church and also to the preservation of religious plurality. R. Po-chia Hsia and Henk van Nierop have brought together a group of leading historians from the U.K., the U.S. and the Netherlands. Their outstanding essays probe the history and myth of Dutch religious toleration.

Author: R. Po-Chia Hsia
ISBN-10: 0521806828
ISBN-13: 9780521806824
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/26/2002
Pages: 196
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.32h x 6.30w x 0.73d