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- Title
The Making of a Fundamental Value: A History of the Concept of Separation of Church and State in the Netherlands.
- Authors
RUTJES, MART
- Abstract
Separation of church and state is one of the key concepts in contemporary debates in increasingly secular democracies like the Netherlands. It is not only used to describe the legal and political arrangements between the state and religious organizations, but is also part of a larger discursive struggle over national identity and the meaning of citizenship. Th is article traces the history of the concept of separation of church and state in the Netherlands since the eighteenth century. First, it shows how the concept has always been a contested one. Second, it argues that the current framing of separation of church and state as a fundamental value of Dutch society is relatively recent and is connected to growing secularism and the position of Islam in Dutch society.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; CHURCH &; state; HISTORY of church &; state; CONCEPTUAL history; NATIONALISM; DUTCH national character; CITIZENSHIP; ISLAM &; secularism; DEMOCRACY
- Publication
Contributions to the History of Concepts (Berghahn Books), 2017, Vol 12, Issue 2, p29
- ISSN
1807-9326
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3167/choc.2017.120203