The uses of myth and history in the ideological politics of the Dutch Golden Age

It is perhaps not surprising that the Dutch Republic with its numerous political assemblies and consultative style of government should have been, in some ways, a more pervasively ideological society than virtually any other in seventeenth-century Europe. It seems likely also that lack of religious...

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Published inNarratives of Low Countries History and Culture p. 9
Main Author Jonathan I. Israel
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published UCL Press 07.11.2016
Subjects
Applied sociology
Behavioral sciences
Churches
Conflict
Cultural history
Historical methodology
Historiography
History
History of religion
Human behavior
Jewish history
Narrative history
Political debate
Political history
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political processes
Political science
Politics
Religion
Social behavior
Social interaction
Sociology
Sociology of religion
Theology
Tyranny
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Summary:It is perhaps not surprising that the Dutch Republic with its numerous political assemblies and consultative style of government should have been, in some ways, a more pervasively ideological society than virtually any other in seventeenth-century Europe. It seems likely also that lack of religious unity and of a powerful state church, combined with the inevitable need to deflect some of the impetus of theological strife and confessional rivalry, added to the persistent tendency of the Dutch political scene to become an arena for contending secular political ideologies. The relative weakness of the public church, combined with the comparatively strong
ISBN:9781910634981
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