Geestige praktijken: Over de vitaliteit van religieuze heelwijzen in Nederland sinds 1850

2005 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Sipco J. Vellenga
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Faith Healing ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Religious Healing ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Holy Places ◽  
Market Approach ◽  
Western Esotericism

This article examines the development of the popularity of religious healing in the Netherlands since 1850 and the factors that contribute to its continuation. It focuses upon three traditions: devotional healing in Roman Catholicism, charismatic healing in Pentecostalism and energetic healing in Western Esotericism. Till about 1965, the interest in making a pilgrimage to holy places of healing showed a strong increase, while the number of participants in faith-healing and esoteric healing remained small. Since then, the development has turned completely the opposite way. Starting from a market approach it is related to contextual, institutional and supply factors. It is argued, that religious healing practices are a normal phenomenon in Western European culture with the vitality to survive in modern times.

The Netherlands

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bob Moore
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Political System ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
Roman Catholicism ◽  
Islamic Culture ◽  
Small Minority ◽  
General Consensus ◽  
Popular Appeal ◽  
The Stability

There is a general consensus among historians and political scientists that fascism has never had much popular appeal in the Netherlands. The reasons put forward for this view centre on the stability of a Dutch political system epitomized by relatively unchanging voter allegiances and cabinet formation through coalitions of two or more parties. Traditionally, these allegiances were defined primarily by confessional or established ideological positions: Roman Catholicism, Orthodox Calvinism, liberalism, and Social Democracy. More recently, a fear of immigrants and of an increased presence of Islamic culture has helped spawn movements that, if not openly fascist, certainly contain some of the attributes associated with mainstream fascism. The first forms of fascism emerged in the Netherlands during the 1920s, inspired by a small minority who were motivated by admiration for what Mussolini had achieved in Italy.

Honor-Related Violence in the Netherlands

2020 ◽  
pp. 122-143
Author(s):  
Janine Janssen
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Important Lesson ◽  
Lethal Outcome ◽  
Honor Codes ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Family

What has the Dutch police learned about violence in the name of the family honor over the years? In the first paragraph, authors will deal with the question: What is violence in the name of the family honor? And what has the Dutch police done to curb this particular form of violence? The second paragraph addresses the question: What tools do the Dutch police have for dealing with this form of violence and helping vulnerable groups in society? The most important lesson that the Dutch Police have learned is that this form of violence has many faces. It might be a threat or have a lethal outcome. Next to that, ancient honor codes are capable of tapping into modern times: offenses against the honor of the family do not only take place in ‘real life' so to speak, but also online. In the early days in The Netherlands, violence in the name of family honor was often associated with migrants of Turkish decent, but nowadays the police also see cases in other communities.

scholarly journals The Origins of Creationism in the Netherlands: The Evolution Debate among Twentieth-Century Dutch Neo-Calvinists

2012 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham C. Flipse
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
The United States ◽  
Science And Religion ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Late Nineteenth

The Netherlands is, besides the United States, one of the few countries where debates about creationism have been raging for decades. Strict creationism has become deeply rooted in traditional Reformed (Calvinist) circles, which is all the more remarkable as it stemmed from a very different culture and theological tradition. This essay analyses the historical implantation of this foreign element in Dutch soil by investigating the long-term interaction between American creationism and Dutch “neo-Calvinism,” a movement emerging in the late nineteenth century, which attempted to bring classical Calvinism into rapport with modern times. The heated debates about evolution in the interbellum period as well as in the sixties—periods characterized by a cultural reorientation of the Dutch Calvinists—turn out to have played a crucial role. In the interbellum period, leading Dutch theologians—fiercely challenged by Calvinist scientists—imported US “flood geology” in an attempt to stem the process of modernisation in the Calvinist subculture. In the sixties many Calvinists abandoned their resistance to evolutionary theory, but creationism continued to play a prominent role as the neo-Calvinist tradition was upheld by an orthodox minority, who (re-)embraced the reviving “Genesis Flood” creationism. The appropriation of American creationism was eased by the earlier Calvinist-creationist connection, but also by “inventing” a Calvinist-creationist tradition, suggesting continuity with the ideas of the founding fathers of neo-Calvinism. This article aims to contribute to a better understanding of what Ronald L. Numbers has recently called the “globalization” of the “science-and-religion dialogue.”

Church, Sacrament, and Society: Abraham Kuyper's Early Baptismal Theology, 1859-1874

2008 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 275-296
Author(s):  
John Halsey Wood
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Institutional Church

AbstractThis article considers the development of Abraham Kuyper's theology of baptism during his early life, from 1859 as a theology student at Leiden University through 1874, the conclusion of his pastoral career in the Netherlands Reformed Church. After initially rejecting the institutional church, Kuyper began to develop a theology for a free church in order to bring Calvinism into rapport with modern times. This paper argues that Kuyper's theology of baptism developed as part of this vision of a modern Calvinist church, one that was both a voluntary institution and an objective, divinely sanctioned institution. The fluctuations of Kuyper's early baptismal theology reflect the tensions of this proposal for a modern church, but by the end or his pastoral career Kuyper had settled on the primacy of the institutional church in baptism.

scholarly journals Lyme borreliosis in the Netherlands: strong increase in GP consultations and hospital admissions in past 10 years

2006 ◽  
Vol 11 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
A Hofhuis ◽  
J W van der Giessen ◽  
F Borgsteede ◽  
P R Wielinga ◽  
D W Notermans ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lyme Disease ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Lyme Borreliosis ◽  
Hospital Admissions ◽  
Strong Increase

Lyme borreliosis (Lyme disease) is not notifiable in the Netherlands

The Emergence of Technological Development and the Question of Native Identity in the Netherlands East Indies

2005 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzanne Moon
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Development Projects ◽  
Colonial Rule ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
East Indies ◽  
European Culture ◽  
Native Identity ◽  
Netherlands East Indies ◽  
Development Policies

This article examines the emergence of twentieth-century technological development policies in the Netherlands East Indies from broader welfare policies formulated in the nineteenth century. Identity became particularly important in policymaking as officials disputed whether differences between Javanese and European culture could explain why the Javanese did not flourish under colonial rule, and whether encouraging Javanese to become more like Europeans would solve ‘Native’ welfare problems. Technical experts, whose development projects would increasingly define what a ‘developed’ Native would be, became crucially important players in debates about ‘Europeanizing’ the indigenous people.

Arbeidsmarktdynamiek in Nederland: 2003-2013

2014 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bart Loog ◽  
Wendy Smits ◽  
Robert de Vries
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
Business Cycle ◽  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Job Mobility ◽  
Seasonal Effects ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
Market Dynamics ◽  
Job Flows

Labour market dynamics in the Netherlands 2003-2013 Labour market dynamics in the Netherlands 2003-2013 In this article we investigate structural trends in labour market dynamics in the Netherlands over the 2003-2013 period. We consider several measures of labour market dynamics: (1) total reallocation of workers moving into and out of employment, (2) hirings and separations separately, (3) job-to-job flows, and flows to and from non-employment. In addition, we test whether these measures evolved differently for workers with a different level of educational attainment. Our results indicate that, correcting for business cycle and seasonal effects, both hiring and separation significantly increased during the period under consideration. This increase concerns mainly flows into and out of employment. We do not find a structural increase in job-to-job mobility. In particular low and intermediate educated workers seem harmed by the increasing labour market dynamics, facing a relatively strong increase in the probability of becoming unemployed, while the probability of finding a job out of unemployment remained unchanged.

Western Esotericism and the Science of Religions

Numen ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen-Claire Voss ◽  
Antoine Faivre
Keyword(s):  
17Th Century ◽  
Specific Form ◽  
Diverse Group ◽  
The West ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Jacob Boehme ◽  
History Of Religions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western Esotericism

AbstractThe term “esotericism” refers here to the modern esoteric currents in the West (15th to 20th centuries), i.e. to a diverse group of works, authors, trends, which possess an “air de famille” and which must be studied as a part of the history of religions because of the specific form it has acquired in the West from the Renaissance on. This field is comprised of currents like: alchemy (its philosophical and/or “spiritual” aspects); the philosophia occulta; Christian Kabbalah; Paracelsianism and the Naturphilosophie in its wake; theosophy (Jacob Boehme and his followers, up to and including the Theosophical Society); Rosicrucianism of the 17th century and the subsequent similarly-oriented initiatic societies; and hermetism, i.e. the reception of the Greek Hermetica in modern times.

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