Beyond the Persecuting Society : : Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment / / Cary J. Nederman, John Christian Laursen.
There is a myth-easily shattered-that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another-too readily accepted-that before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution held sw...
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Beyond the Persecuting Society : Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment / Cary J. Nederman, John Christian Laursen. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2011] ©1997 1 online resource (296 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction: Political and Historical Myths in the Toleration Literature -- Introduction: Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance in Medieval Europe -- 1. Peter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue -- 2. Toleration, Skepticism, and the "Clash of Ideas": Principles of Liberty in the Writings of John of Salisbury -- 3. Ha-Me'iri's Theory of Religious Toleration -- Introduction: The Transformations of the Long Sixteenth Century -- 4. "Heretics be not in all things heretics": Cardinal Pole, His Circle, and the Potential for Toleration -- 5. The Concept of Toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin -- 6. Religious Coexistence and Confessional Conflict in the Vier Dörfer: Practices of Toleration in Eastern Switzerland, 1525-1615 -- Introduction: Contexts and Paths to Toleration in the Seventeenth Century -- 7. Samuel von Pufendorf and Toleration -- 8. Baylean Liberalism: Tolerance Requires Nontolerance -- 9. "Religion Set the World at Odds": Deism and the Climate of Religious Tolerance in the Works of Aphra Behn -- 10. Skepticism About Religion and Millenarian Dogmatism: Two Sources of Toleration in the Seventeenth Century -- 11. The Problem of Toleration in the New Israel: Religious Communalism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts -- Index -- Contributors restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star There is a myth-easily shattered-that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another-too readily accepted-that before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In Beyond the Persecuting Society John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second generalization.If intolerance and religious persecution have been at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have realized: Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous Letter Concerning Toleration. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn, from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century Talmudic scholar, Menahem ben Solomon Ha-MeIiri, to the rejection of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Beyond the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jun 2020) European History. History. Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Religion. Religious Studies. World History. HISTORY / World. bisacsh Laursen, John Christian, editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Nederman, Cary J., editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection 9783110413458 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package World History 9783110413472 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub) 9783110442526 print 9780812215670 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812205862 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812205862 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812205862.jpg |
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Beyond the Persecuting Society : Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment / Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction: Political and Historical Myths in the Toleration Literature -- Introduction: Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance in Medieval Europe -- 1. Peter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue -- 2. Toleration, Skepticism, and the "Clash of Ideas": Principles of Liberty in the Writings of John of Salisbury -- 3. Ha-Me'iri's Theory of Religious Toleration -- Introduction: The Transformations of the Long Sixteenth Century -- 4. "Heretics be not in all things heretics": Cardinal Pole, His Circle, and the Potential for Toleration -- 5. The Concept of Toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres of Jean Bodin -- 6. Religious Coexistence and Confessional Conflict in the Vier Dörfer: Practices of Toleration in Eastern Switzerland, 1525-1615 -- Introduction: Contexts and Paths to Toleration in the Seventeenth Century -- 7. Samuel von Pufendorf and Toleration -- 8. Baylean Liberalism: Tolerance Requires Nontolerance -- 9. "Religion Set the World at Odds": Deism and the Climate of Religious Tolerance in the Works of Aphra Behn -- 10. Skepticism About Religion and Millenarian Dogmatism: Two Sources of Toleration in the Seventeenth Century -- 11. The Problem of Toleration in the New Israel: Religious Communalism in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts -- Index -- Contributors |
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