Networks of Confessional Affiliation: Religious Choice and the Schism of Utrecht ...

This article demonstrates our methodology for studying the process of intra-Catholic confessional affiliation during the schism that occurred in the Catholic Church in the eighteenth-century Dutch Republic. The schism resulted in the remarkable fact that the Republic, a Protestant state, became home to two competing Catholic Churches, the Roman Catholic Church and the Roomsch-Katholieke Kerk der Oud-Bisschoppelijke Cleresie (​​OBC Church). In order to understand the choices made by laypeople for one of the two Catholic Churches, we created a dataset based on the baptisms and marriages taking... Mehr ...