Dutch religious history is a fascinating subject that has drawn – and still draws – the attention of many professionals and laypeople from inside and beyond the... » 

Dutch religious history is a fascinating subject that has drawn – and still draws – the attention of many professionals and laypeople from inside and beyond the Netherlands. In recent decades, religious history has been gradually transformed from a traditional theological discipline into a form of cultural history in the broadest possible sense of the term. Willem Frijhoff, professor of early modern history at the Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, has contributed greatly to this development. He has often demonstrated his approach through case studies, ten of which are now re-issued in English translation in this volume. The articles are concerned with a variety of topics on religious and popular culture in the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Netherlands. All contributions show a strong interest in interconfessional patterns, religious attitudes and expressions, and interdisciplinary perspectives. «