Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment

John Laursen, Cary J. Nederman

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998 - Всего страниц: 288

There is a myth—easily shattered—that Western societies since the Enlightenment have been dedicated to the ideal of protecting the differences between individuals and groups, and another—too readily accepted—that before the rise of secularism in the modern period, intolerance and persecution held sway throughout Europe. In Beyond the Persecuting Society John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second generalization.

If intolerance and religious persecution have been at the root of some of the greatest suffering in human history, it is nevertheless the case that toleration was practiced and theorized in medieval and early modern Europe on a scale few have realized: Christians and Jews, the English, French, Germans, Dutch, Swiss, Italians, and Spanish had their proponents of and experiments with tolerance well before John Locke penned his famous Letter Concerning Toleration. Moving from Abelard to Aphra Behn, from the apology for the gentiles of the fourteenth-century Talmudic scholar, Menahem ben Solomon Ha-MeIiri, to the rejection of intolerance in the "New Israel" of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Beyond the Persecuting Society offers a detailed and decisive correction to a vision of the past as any less complex in its embrace and abhorrence of diversity than the present.

Содержание

• Discourses and Contexts of Tolerance: 13
• Peter Abelard and the Enigma of Dialogue 25: 25
• HaMeiris Theory of Religious Toleration: 71
• The Long Sixteenth Century: 93
• Cardinal Pole: 107
• The Concept of Toleration in the Colloquium Heptaplomeres: 125
• Religious Coexistence and Confessional Conflict in: 145
• The Seventeenth Century: 167
• Samuel von Pufendorf and Toleration: 178
• Tolerance Requires Nontolerance: 197
• Deism and the Climate: 216
• Religious: 251
• Index: 279
• Contributors: 287

Библиографические данные

• Название: Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment; Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment, John Christian Laursen
• Редакторы: John Laursen, Cary J. Nederman
• Издатель: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998
• ISBN: 0812215672, 9780812215670
• Количество страниц: Всего страниц: 288