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

• Published in: Enlightened Religion p. 1
• Main Authors: Joke Spaans, Jetze Touber
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: BRILL 26.03.2019

European religious culture changed in the transition from the seventeenth to the eighteenth century. We have known this for a long time. Ernst Troeltsch, in his Die Bedeutung des Protestantismus für die Entstehung der modernen Welt (1906), famously hinted at a reconceptualization of religion at this...