Pillarisation
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Pillarisation is the vertical division of a society into separate groups, or "pillars", organised along religious, socio-economic, and ideological lines. The phenomenon is most closely associated with
Poster of the Nederlandsche Unie, an anti-pillarisation group that was at first embraced by the German occupying administration but later banned in 1941
Abraham Kuyper
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Abraham Kuyper was the prime minister of the Netherlands between 1901 and 1905, and an influential neo-Calvinist pastor and journalist. He established the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands, which u
Pillarisation
…least three main social pillars: Protestant, Catholic, and social democratic. Pillarisation in the country was initiated in the late 19th century by Abraham Kuyper, a theologian and politician associated with the Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP), a Christian democratic and neo-Calvinist (gereformeerd) organisation…
Kuyper in 1905
Caricature of Kuyper by Albert Hahn, from a 1904 edition of the satirical magazine De Ware Jacob.
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