TY - BOOK AU - Stronks,Els TI - Negotiating differences : word, image and religion in the Dutch Republic T2 - Brill eBook titles 2011 SN - 9789004210639 AV - BV153.N4 S77 2011 U1 - 246.09492/0903 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Christian art and symbolism KW - Netherlands KW - Modern period, 1500- KW - Christian literature, Dutch KW - History and criticism KW - Illustrations KW - Religious tolerance KW - History KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Church history N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-334) and index; Preliminary Material; E. Stronks --; Chapter One. Literature As Reflection Of Religious Identities; E. Stronks --; Chapter Two. Aspects Of Visual Culture: Word, Image And Religion; E. Stronks --; Chapter Three. Restrictions And Sensibilities, 1600–1630; E. Stronks --; Chapter Four. Diverging Roads, 1630–1653; E. Stronks --; Chapter Five. Windows Of Opportunity, 1653–1678; E. Stronks --; Chapter Six. Appropriation, 1678–1725; E. Stronks --; Chapter Seven. Annexation, 1725–1795; E. Stronks --; Epilogue; E. Stronks --; Bibliography; E. Stronks --; Index; E. Stronks; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - This book explores the dynamics of peaceful coexistence in the Dutch Republic by tracing the literary responses to one of the key controversies between Protestants and Catholics – the role of religious imagery in worship. Why and to what extent were people in the Republic willing to reconcile theological differences and combine elements from their own religious cultural practices with those of another? The intermingling of practices, the author shows, was unexpectedly complicated in the Republic. Restraints were imposed on the use of images in religious literature of all denominations till 1650. Evidence of negotiations appears after 1650, however, as Dutch Protestants absorbed significant aspects of Catholic visual traditions into their own. Religious toleration had clearly become a matter of sharing rather than enduring for the Protestants, but retained features of a monologue since Dutch Catholics were then developing a new, idiosyncratic identity of their own UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004204232.i-342 ER -