“An Interesting Experiment”: The Portuguese Estado Novo and Dutch Christianity in the 1930s and 1940s ; “Uma experiência interessante”: o Estado Novo português e o cristianismo holandês nas décadas de 1930 e 1940

In 1933, one year after his inauguration as prime minister of Portugal, António de Oliveira Salazar managedto get a new constitution accepted, reorganising Portuguese politics, civil society, and economics on a corporatistbasis. This article deals with the remarkable amount of interest that Salazar’s Estado Novo aroused in the circles ofChristian political parties in the Netherlands in the late 1930s and early 1940s. My argument is that this interest hadto do with the existing institutional compartmentalisation of Dutch society along politico-religious lines, known as‘verzuiling’ or ‘pillarisa... Mehr ...