Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- 1 Introduction -- Phases in the making of religious toleration -- Local diversity -- Techniques of toleration -- The Netherlands in comparative perspective -- 2 'Dutch' religious tolerance: celebration and revision -- 3 Religious toleration in the United Provinces: from 'case' to 'model' -- Perceptions of religious diversity -- Pluralism and diversity: the Dutch 'case' -- Legitimisation of diversity, figures of unity -- 4 The bond of Christian piety: the individual practice of tolerance and intolerance in the Dutch Republic -- 5 Religious policies in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic -- Toleration as a topic in Dutch historiography -- The Dutch Republic among confessional states -- Coping with diversity -- A tolerant Republic? -- 6 Paying off the sheriff: strategies of Catholic toleration in Golden Age Holland -- 7 Sewing the bailiff in a blanket: Catholics and the law in Holland -- 8 Anabaptism and tolerance: possibilities and limitations -- Mennonites in the Republic: a tolerated minority -- The Waterlander view on tolerance -- Tolerance and reunion -- Unlimited tolerance -- 9 Jews and religious toleration in the Dutch Republic -- 10 Religious toleration and radical philosophy in the later Dutch Golden Age (1668-1710) -- 11 The politics of intolerance: citizenship and religion in the Dutch Republic (seventeenth to eighteenth centuries) -- Dutch urban citizenship: a short introduction -- Citizenship and religion -- The chronology of religious exclusion -- Citizenship and religious discrimination -- Select bibliography -- Index.