Toleration on TrialIngrid Creppell, Russell Hardin, Stephen Macedo Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the field. The volume addresses the toleration question from a number of angles: toleration and its application to gay rights; Islam and toleration; institutional, ideological, and psychological preconditions for its practice; and philosophical and conceptual arguments for the principle of toleration. The common thread running throughout the volume is the core question: Is toleration primarily a product of institutional arrangements, or is it an attitude of individuals? To answer this adequately, the authors believe that a contemporary analysis of the possibility, significance and requirements of toleration must be fully cognizant of the democratic, or more accurately--politically mobilized--background in which toleration becomes a difficult issue. Conflicts between deeply divided groups within nations and between groups across political boundaries pose the issue of threat and risk to a practice or way of life that many peoples find difficult to accept. Can the idea and practice of toleration manage these in politically and ethically defensible ways? These essays address various aspects of the aim to establish or strengthen toleration among politically mobilized groups, in a context of contemporary democratic challenges. |
Contents
The Limits of Toleration | 17 |
Institutionalizing Toleration | 31 |
Toleration and SelfSkepticism | 49 |
Commentary Tolerant Institutions | 73 |
Of Socinians and Homosexuals Trust and the Limits of Toleration | 85 |
Toleration as Recognition The Case for SameSex Marriage | 111 |
Commentary Liberal Toleration Recognition and SameSex Marriage A Response to Richard H Dees and Anna Elisabetta Galeotti | 135 |
Tropes and Challenges of Islamic Toleration | 153 |
Reason Tradition and Authority Religion and the Indian State | 193 |
Commentary Muslim Societies Muslim Minorities | 215 |
The Authoritarian Dynamic Racial Political and Moral Intolerance Under Conditions of Societal Threat | 225 |
Is Intolerance Incorrigible? An Analysis of Change Among Russians | 259 |
Institutions Individuals and the Sources of Toleration | 289 |
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About the Contributors | 307 |
Toleration in a Modern Islamic Polity Contemporary Islamist Views | 169 |
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Page 5 - But neither one person, nor any number of persons, is warranted in saying to another human creature of ripe years, that he shall not do with his life for his own benefit what he chooses to do with it.
Page 298 - Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression. In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.