Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern EuropeAs religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today. |
Contents
A Holy Zeal Christian piety in the confessional age | 15 |
Corpus Christianum The community as religious body | 48 |
Flashpoints The events that triggered violence | 73 |
One Faith One Law One King How religion and politics intersected | 99 |
ARRANGEMENTS | 125 |
The Gold Coin Ecumenical experiments | 127 |
Crossing Borders Traveling to attend services | 144 |
Fictions of Privacy House chapels | 172 |
A Friend to the Person Individual and group relations | 237 |
Transgressions Conversion and intermarriage | 266 |
Infidels Muslims and Jews in Christian Europe | 294 |
CHANGES | 331 |
Enlightenment? The rise of toleration reconsidered | 333 |
Notes | 361 |
Further Reading | 386 |
Acknowledgments | 396 |
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