Beyond the Persecuting Society : : Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment /

Beyond the Persecuting Society : : Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment / / Cary J. Nederman, John Christian Laursen.

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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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Laursen, John Christian,
Nederman, Cary J.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©1997
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (296 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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