Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment
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| Rating | : | 4.80 (967 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0812215672 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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John Christian Laursen is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside, and author of The Politics of Skepticism in the Ancients, Montaigne, Hume and Kant. Mews, Richard Popkin, Gary Remer, and H. In addition to the editors, contributors are Detlef Dering, Arlen Feldwick, Randolph C. Mayer, Constant J. Head, Marion Leathers Kuntz, Tho
"Beyond the Persecuting Society confronts the myth that there was no general conception or practice of religious toleration before the Enlightenment. It is the great strength of this collection that the diversity and richness of the often tentative allowance for confessional pluralism can be documented at times when unity of faith was seen as no less necessary than unity of obedience."—Albion
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.. There is a myth—easily shattered—that Western socie
One of the best books on this topic! Many don't realise that the freedom we experience today is due to the long development of an attitude of toleration. This book gives an excellent account, through a variety of essays on how this move was made possible. It is very readable, and is suitable for the beginner who has an interest in the subject, or the more advanced student/lecturer who appreciates the accuracy and depth that this book has to offer.Please give this book a go - it is a highly fac. Religious Tolerance By the the Religious. Insights into Moses Maimonides and Menahem Ha-Me’iri Jan Peczkis This work consists of a series of essays on the subject of religious tolerance. It refutes the argument that religious tolerance began in the Enlightenment, or that religious tolerance had been the creation of atheist or agnostic thinkers. (e. g, p. 5).I focus on Gary Remer’s article (pp. 71-91), which is titled, Ha-Meiri’s Theory of Religious Toleration”. Gary Remer is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science at Tulane Univer