Boundaries of Toleration - Religion, Culture and Public Life

How can people of diverse religious, historical, ethnic, and linguistic allegiances and identities live together without committing violence, inflicting suffering, or oppressing each other? Western civilization has long understood this dilemma as a question of toleration, yet the logic of toleration and the logic of multicultural rights entrenchment are two very different things. In this volume, contributors suggest we also think beyond toleration to mutual respect, practiced before the creation of modern multiculturalism in the West. The volume concludes with a refutation of the claim that toleration was invented in the West and is alien to non-Western cultures.

List of contents

Introduction, by Alfred Stepan and Charles TaylorReligion and the Imagination, by Salman Rushdie with Gauri ViswanathanPart 1. Classical Western Approaches to TolerationA Form of Liberty and Indulgence: Toleration as a Layered Institution, by Ira KatznelsonHow to Define Secularism, by Charles TaylorSecularism: Its Content and Context, by Akeel BilgramiHalf-Toleration: Concordia and the Limits of Dialogue, by Nadia UrbinatiPart 2. Before and Beyond Classical Approaches to TolerationBeyond Toleration: Civility and Principled Coexistence in Asokan Edicts, by Rajeev BhargavaEmpire and Toleration: A Comparative Sociology of Toleration Within Empire, by Karen BarkeyModernity, State, and Toleration in Indian History: Exploring Accommodations and Partitions, by Sudipta KavirajMuslims and Toleration: Unexamined Contributions to the Multiple Secularisms of Modern Democracies, by Alfred StepanContributorsIndex

About the author

Alfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University. He coedited Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey and Democracy and Islam in Indonesia. Charles Taylor is professor emeritus of philosophy at McGill University and the author of Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity; Modern Social Imaginaries; and A Secular Age.

Summary

Distinguished novelists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, and political scientists propose a new approach to settling multicultural tensions in the modern world.

Product details

• Authors: Stepan, Alfred Stepan, Alfred Taylor Stepan
• Assisted by: Alfred Stepan (Editor), Alfred (Wallace Sayre Professor Stepan (Editor), Stepan Alfred (Editor), Charles Taylor (Editor), Charles (McGill University) Taylor (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2014
• EAN: 9780231165679
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16567-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 231 mm x 18 mm
• Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, HISTORY / World, RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy, Politics & government, social and political philosophy, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict, Political control and freedoms, public policy; international relations