Gezocht: katholiek met hart voor natuurschoon: De natuurbeschermingsbeweging in Nederland en het katholieke volksdeel

The nature conservation movement and Catholicism were conspicuously detached in the Netherlands in the first half of the twentieth century. Nature conservation was apparently not an area of interest for the emerging Catholic ‘pillar’. Most conservationist groups and associations and their leaders were affiliated to the ‘neutral’ or ‘liberal’ pillar. The first half of this article provides an overview of the individual Catholic activists, conservationists, and hobby naturalists affiliated to the nature conservation movement in this early period. After 1945, however, Catholic under-representatio... Mehr ...