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This volume examines the knotty relationship between toleration and religious freedom. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, it explores how discourses on toleration impact on current debates about religious freedom, and challenges assumptions about the associations between religious ideas and the law. Bringing together scholarship from the fields of history, law, political science, philosophy, and theology, it throws into sharp relief the disciplinary presuppositions that have-sometimes misleadingly-shaped our understandings of toleration and religious freedom.
List of contents
Contents: John Coffey: How Religious Freedom Became a Natural Right: The Case of Post- Reformation England - Fiona McCall: Tolerable and Intolerable Local Practices of Religion during the English Interregnum - Shannon Stimson: The Political Arithmetic of Transmutation: Heterodoxy and Political Economy in Sir William Petty (1623- 1687) - Alex Tebble: Where Liberalism Begins and Toleration Ends: Locke on Atheism and Rawls on the «Unreasonable» - Augur Pearce: Mutual Toleration in the English Churches: Legal Devices to Enforce Perceived Orthodoxy in Denominational Space - Sarah Scholl: From Toleration to Religious Freedom to Toleration Again? A Historical Reflection on the Swiss Case (Sixteenth to Twenty- First Centuries) - Kaisa Iso- Herttua: Toleration and Religious Otherness in the Early Enlightenment and Contemporary Europe - Mirela Kresic: Different yet Similar: Croatian Experiences of the Integration of Its Islamic Community into Society - Hans Leaman: Lutheran Legacies and the Politics of Migration: Reformation Resources for a Contemporary Conundrum - E. S. Kempson: Toleration and Religious Freedom: From Cross- Disciplinary to Cross- Faith and Worldview.
About the author
Mariëtta van der Tol is Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford.
Carys Brown is a Junior Research Fellow in History at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
John Adenitire is a Strategic Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary, University of London.
E. S. Kempson is a Lecturer and Tutor in Theology at St. Mellitus College, London.
Summary
This volume examines the knotty relationship between toleration and religious freedom. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, it explores how discourses on toleration impact on current debates about religious freedom, and challenges assumptions about the associations between religious ideas and the law.
