TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dieleman,Kyle
TI  - Navigating Reformed Identity in the Rural Dutch Republic: Communities, Belief, and Piety 
SN  - 9789048550777
U1  - 284/.2492 23//eng/20231006eng
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Amsterdam University Press
KW  - Reformed Church
KW  - History
KW  - 16th century
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Rural churches
KW  - Dutch and The Netherlands
KW  - Early Modern Studies
KW  - History, Art History, and Archaeology
KW  - Religion and Theology
KW  - HISTORY / Modern / 16th Century
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Low Countries, Reformation, Piety, Identity, Consistories
N1  - Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Introduction --; 1 Establishing Order via National, Provincial, and Local Church Orders: “Let All Things Be Done with Decency and Order” --; 2 Establishing Authority: Electing Elders and Deacons --; 3 Establishing Confessional Identity : An “Honest Citizen, Even Though a Catholic” --; 4 Navigating Intra-Confessional Conflict: “Live at Peace with Everyone”? --; 5 Establishing Belief and Practice: Rural Approaches to Sabbath Observance --; Conclusion : Establishing and Navigating Reformed Identity in the Rural Low Countries --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - Through an examination of Dutch Reformed church records and theological texts, Kyle Dieleman explores the local dynamics of religious life in the early modern Dutch Republic. The book argues that within the religiously plural setting of the Dutch Republic church officials used a variety of means to establish a Reformed identity in their communities. As such, the book explores the topics of church orders, elders and deacons, intra-confessional and inter-confessional conflicts, and Sabbath observance as local means by which small, rural communities negotiated and experienced their religious lives. In exploring rural Dutch Reformed congregations, the book examines the complicated relationships between theology and practice and ‘lay’ and ‘elite’ religion and highlights challenges rural churches faced. As they faced these issues, Dieleman demonstrates that local congregations exercised agency within their lived religious experiences as they sought unique ways to navigate their own Reformed identity within their small, rural communities
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048550777?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789048550777
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789048550777/original
ER  -