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

This volume widens the scope of research into the relation between religion and Enlightenment. The contributions demonstrate the impact of changing worldviews in a variety of intellectual disciplines and cultural milieus.

About the author

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).

Product details

• Assisted by: Joke Spaans (Editor), Jetze Touber (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.04.2019
• EAN: 9789004298927
• ISBN: 978-90-04-29892-7
• No. of pages: 390
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 254 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectua
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day