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Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society

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Ritual slaughter thus became both a test case for how modern societies contend with what are often considered socially deviant religious practices, and a challenge for the accepted range of tolerance. As I will demonstrate in this article, the ways in which ritual slaughter was or was not tolerated were an expression of the arrangement of religion in society. Changing ideological and political views of the role of religion, and consequently of attitudes towards religious minorities, immediately influenced the status of ritual slaughter. I will concentrate on one case study: the treatment of ritual slaughter in Dutch society from the start of the twentieth century until the recent debates in 2011

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Link to article (paywalled), Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society
10.1163/9789004335530_010

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Wallet, Bart Ritual Slaughter, Religious Plurality and the Secularization of Dutch Society. Sacrifice in Modernity: Community, Ritual, Identity. Brill. 2016:  https://archive.jpr.org.uk/object-neth8