Delving into rich but little-known sources, Religious Toleration combats the standard understanding of toleration as a development of the modern West by demonstrating its occurrence in ancient Persia and China, medieval Europe, colonial Latin America, and Europe before the Enlightenment. Cyrus of Persia returned the Jews to Jerusalem, founding biblical and Greek traditions of toleration. The ancient Chinese tolerated the Jews as well, and arguments for mutual toleration in early Spanish America came from both the Spanish and the native sides. From medieval times to the rise of commercial society, Europeans experimented with ideas about toleration that have been forgotten until recently. This book brings to light a substantial portion of religious history by reviving the heritage of toleration, and it is the first to juxtapose early theories and practices of toleration in a global comparative perspective.
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"...a challenging and pioneering book that may well define the future of this field of research."--George Wright, British Journal for the History of Philosophy
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John Christian Laursen is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside.
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New York, Cambridge University Press, Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Guaman Poma, Nicholas of Cusa, Christian Thomasius, First America, Old Testament, Harvard University Press, Fall of Natural Man, Richard Overton, Versatile Defoe, Clarendon Press, Mario Turchetti, Pierre Bayle, Princeton University Press, Samuel von Pufendorf, Tupac Amaru, Columbia University Press, Lewis Hanke, The Araignement, Chinese Jews, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oxford University Press New!
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pace fidel, pace fidei, toleration literature, cujus regio, religious concord, political toleration, rites controversy, natural slavery, religious toleration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, Daniel Defoe, John Locke, Guaman Poma, Nicholas of Cusa, Christian Thomasius, First America, Old Testament, Harvard University Press, Fall of Natural Man, Richard Overton, Versatile Defoe, Clarendon Press, Mario Turchetti, Pierre Bayle, Princeton University Press, Samuel von Pufendorf, Tupac Amaru, Columbia University Press, Lewis Hanke, The Araignement, Chinese Jews, Garcilaso de la Vega, Oxford University Press New!
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- Difference and Dissent by Cary J. Nederman on 13 pages
- Political Liberalism: Expanded Edition (Columbia Classics in Philosophy) by John Rawls in Front Matter, page 11, and page 71
- The Culture and Social Institutions of Ancient Iran by Muhammad A. Dandamaev on page 34, page 35, and page 36
- Pierre Bayle: Tome I Du pays de foix à la cité d'Erasme (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées) by Elisabeth Labrousse on page 187, page 207, and Back Matter
- The Persian Empire by J.M. Cook on page 34, and page 36
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