Toleration in Comparative Perspective

This collection of essays explores conceptions of toleration and tolerance in Asia and the West. It tests the assumption in contemporary Western political discourse and theory that toleration is a uniquely Western virtue and finds that many other traditions have comparable ideas and practices in grappling with religious and cultural diversity.

List of contents

Introduction, by Vicki A. Spencer
Part I: The West
Chapter 1: William of Ockham and Medieval Discourses on Toleration, by Takashi Shogimen
Chapter 2: The Metaphysics of Toleration in American Indian Philosophy, by Scott L. Pratt
Chapter 3: Human Fallibility and Locke's Doctrine of Toleration, by Vicki A. Spencer
Chapter 4: Pierre Bayle and Benjamin Constant on Toleration, by Ken Tsutsumibayashi
Part II: Southwest Asia
Chapter 5: The Ottomans and Toleration, by Karen Barkey
Chapter 6: Tolerance and Pluralism in Islamic Thought and Praxis, by Asma Afsaruddin
Part III: South Asia
Chapter 7: Tolerance in Nepal Mandala: Communal Relations and Royal Religious Patronage in Malla-Era Kathmandu, by Anne Mocko
Chapter 8: The One in the Many in the Songs of Poet-saints of Medieval India: A Cultural Stance on Tolerance, by Neelima Shukla-Bhatt
Chapter 9: The Limits of Intolerance: A Comparative Reflection on India's Experiment with Tolerance, by Purushottama Bilimoria
Chapter 10: The Tolerations of Theravada Buddhism, by Benjamin Schonthal
Part IV: East Asia
Chapter 11: An Intolerant but Morally Indifferent Regime? Heresy and Immorality in Early Modern Japan, by Koichiro Matsuda
Chapter 12: Two Conceptions of Tolerating in Confucian Thought, by Kam-por Yu
Chapter 13: All Embracing: A Laozian Version of Toleration, by Xiaogan Liu
Conclusion, by Vicki A. Spencer
Suggested Further Readings
About the Contributors

About the author

Vicki A. Spencer is associate professor of political theory at the University of Otago.

Product details

• Authors: Vicki A. Spencer
• Assisted by: Vicki A Spencer (Editor), Vicki A. Spencer (Editor), Spencer Vicki A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9781498530170
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3017-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory; Global Encounters: Studies in; Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; RELIGION / General, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Peace studies and conflict resolution, Religion and Politics, Political science and theory, Religion and beliefs, Peace studies & conflict resolution