Een Geestelijke Bevrijding: De Beweging Voor Geestelijke Volksgezondheid En De Veranderingen in Het Nederlands Katholicisme Na 1945: A spiritual liberation: the movement for mental health and the changes in Dutch Catholicism after 1945.
In the past fifty years great changes have taken place in the Catholic part of the Dutch nation. One of the driving forces in these developments was the Catholic movement for mental health. The movement for mental hygiene came to Europe from the United States in the 1920's. In the segregated Ne...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam University Press
1996
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Trajecta
Year: 1996, Volume: 5, Issue: 2, Pages: 156-176 |
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Netherlands
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| Summary: | In the past fifty years great changes have taken place in the Catholic part of the Dutch nation. One of the driving forces in these developments was the Catholic movement for mental health. The movement for mental hygiene came to Europe from the United States in the 1920's. In the segregated Netherlands of those days the Catholics were the first to pursue the ideal of mental health. They saw it as an effective means to prove the wholesome as well as the healing effects faith could have on mental health. Around 1950 this "loose" relationship between faith and mental health came to an end and the question arose whether faith was indeed always that wholesome. Many Catholics were "mentally unfree" as a result of a "constrained experience of faith," from which they had to be liberated. The years 1950-70, in which this spiritual liberation took place, is a key period in the history of Dutch Catholicism. What happened in those years was no arbitrary string of events, but rather a strictly directed, organized movement that was motivated by a clear purpose and conscious strategy. |
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| ISSN: | 0778-8304 |
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