%0 Journal Article
%T Indecent Calvinists and Vanilla Secularism: Redefining Decency in The Netherlands
%A Janneke Stegeman
%A Mariecke van den Berg
%A Matthea Westerduin
%J Feminist Theology
%@ 1745-5189
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0966735018759454
%X Using Althaus-Reid¡¯s Indecent Theology as a methodology, this article contributes to reflections on the contextuality and physical dimension of Dutch theology: its relation to the Protestant white (mostly male) bodies of its practitioners and its support of and contributions to colonial power and colonial racializing discourse. We do this in a context of a ¡®return to decency¡¯ in political discourse in which ¡®our¡¯ Calvinist roots are evoked to construct a ¡®shared¡¯ past. Using two case studies, we analyse how the in/decent is constructed in the Netherlands. As secularism is more ¡®vanilla¡¯ and Calvinism more indecent than is usually assumed, engagement with indecent texts and untidy roots of Calvinism is needed to re-member both the violent character of Calvinist hermeneutics, as well as its potential for indecent readings
%K Indecent theology
%K Dutch Calvinism
%K vanilla secularism
%K postcolonial
%K Islamaphobia
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0966735018759454