Author: Susan Mendus
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822324980
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Collection of essays asks when intolerance is appropriate and questions how tolerance can be fostered in a contentious and tightly populated world.
The Politics of Toleration in Modern Life
Author: Susan Mendus
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822324980
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Collection of essays asks when intolerance is appropriate and questions how tolerance can be fostered in a contentious and tightly populated world.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822324980
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Collection of essays asks when intolerance is appropriate and questions how tolerance can be fostered in a contentious and tightly populated world.
Politics of Toleration
Author: Susan Mendus
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470971
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Toleration is a core issue within contemporary political debates. The chapters in this work reflect on the importance of tolerance and the dangers of intolerance, both historically and in the present day.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474470971
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169
Book Description
Toleration is a core issue within contemporary political debates. The chapters in this work reflect on the importance of tolerance and the dangers of intolerance, both historically and in the present day.
Religion and the Politics of Tolerance
Author: Marie Ann Eisenstein
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1932792848
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Challenging a widespread belief that religious people are politically intolerant, Marie Ann Eisenstein offers compelling evidence to the contrary. In this surprising and significant book, she thoroughly re-examines previous studies and presents new research to support her argument that there is, in fact, a positive correlation between religious belief and practice and political tolerance in the United States. Eisenstein utilizes sophisticated new analytical tools to re-evaluate earlier data and offers persuasive new statistical evidence to support her claim that religiousness and political tolerance do, indeed, mix--and that religiosity is not the threat to liberal democracy that it is often made out to be.
Publisher: Baylor University Press
ISBN: 1932792848
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Challenging a widespread belief that religious people are politically intolerant, Marie Ann Eisenstein offers compelling evidence to the contrary. In this surprising and significant book, she thoroughly re-examines previous studies and presents new research to support her argument that there is, in fact, a positive correlation between religious belief and practice and political tolerance in the United States. Eisenstein utilizes sophisticated new analytical tools to re-evaluate earlier data and offers persuasive new statistical evidence to support her claim that religiousness and political tolerance do, indeed, mix--and that religiosity is not the threat to liberal democracy that it is often made out to be.
Justifying Toleration
Author: Susan Mendus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521343022
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book traces the growth of philosophical justifications of toleration. The contributors discuss the grounds on which we may be required to be tolerant and the proper limits of toleration. They consider the historical and conceptual relation between toleration and scepticism and ask whether toleration is justified by considerations of autonomy or of prudence. The papers cover a range of perspectives on the subject, including Marxist and Socialist as well as liberal views. The editor's introduction prepares the ground by discussing the essential features of the subject and offers a lucid survey of the theories and arguments put forward in the book. The collection arises out of the Morrell Toleration Project at the University of York and all the papers were written as contributions to that project. The discussion will be of interest to specialists in philosophy, in political and social theory and in intellectual history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521343022
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book traces the growth of philosophical justifications of toleration. The contributors discuss the grounds on which we may be required to be tolerant and the proper limits of toleration. They consider the historical and conceptual relation between toleration and scepticism and ask whether toleration is justified by considerations of autonomy or of prudence. The papers cover a range of perspectives on the subject, including Marxist and Socialist as well as liberal views. The editor's introduction prepares the ground by discussing the essential features of the subject and offers a lucid survey of the theories and arguments put forward in the book. The collection arises out of the Morrell Toleration Project at the University of York and all the papers were written as contributions to that project. The discussion will be of interest to specialists in philosophy, in political and social theory and in intellectual history.
The Politics and Ethics of Toleration
Author: Johannes Drerup
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000425185
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Toleration plays a key role in liberal thought. This book explores our current understanding of toleration in liberal theory and practice. Toleration has traditionally been characterized as the willingness to put up with others or their actions or practices despite the fact that one considers them as objectionable. Toleration has thus been regarded as one of the core aspects of liberalism: as an indispensable democratic virtue and as a constitutive part of liberal political practice. In modern liberal societies, where deep disagreements about social values and ways of life are widespread, toleration still seems to be of crucial importance. However, contemporary debates on toleration cover an immense variety of theoretical and political issues ranging from controversies over its exact understanding and conceptual scope as well as its practical boundaries, e.g., regarding freedom of expression or the legitimate role of religious symbols in educational institutions. The contributions to this volume take up a number of carefully selected key questions and problems emerging from these ongoing theoretical and political controversies in order to explore and shed new light on pivotal conflicts and tensions that pervade different conceptions of toleration. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000425185
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Toleration plays a key role in liberal thought. This book explores our current understanding of toleration in liberal theory and practice. Toleration has traditionally been characterized as the willingness to put up with others or their actions or practices despite the fact that one considers them as objectionable. Toleration has thus been regarded as one of the core aspects of liberalism: as an indispensable democratic virtue and as a constitutive part of liberal political practice. In modern liberal societies, where deep disagreements about social values and ways of life are widespread, toleration still seems to be of crucial importance. However, contemporary debates on toleration cover an immense variety of theoretical and political issues ranging from controversies over its exact understanding and conceptual scope as well as its practical boundaries, e.g., regarding freedom of expression or the legitimate role of religious symbols in educational institutions. The contributions to this volume take up a number of carefully selected key questions and problems emerging from these ongoing theoretical and political controversies in order to explore and shed new light on pivotal conflicts and tensions that pervade different conceptions of toleration. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
The Politics of Toleration
Author: Susan (Professor of Politics and Director Mendus
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780748611690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Toleration is a core issue within contemporary political debates. The chapters in this work reflect on the importance of tolerance and the dangers of intolerance, both historically and in the present day. Contributors include George Carey, Helena Kennedy and Alasdair MacIntrye.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780748611690
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Toleration is a core issue within contemporary political debates. The chapters in this work reflect on the importance of tolerance and the dangers of intolerance, both historically and in the present day. Contributors include George Carey, Helena Kennedy and Alasdair MacIntrye.
On Toleration
Author: Michael Walzer
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300127731
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"—from multinational empires to immigrant societies—and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works—and how it should work—in multicultural societies like the United States. Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, moving quickly from theory to practical issues, concrete examples, and hard questions. His concluding argument is focused on the contemporary United States and represents an effort to join and advance the debates about "culture war," the "politics of difference," and the "disuniting of America." Although he takes a grim view of contemporary politics, he is optimistic about the possibility of coexistence: cultural pluralism and a common citizenship can go together, he suggests, in a strong and egalitarian democracy.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300127731
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"—from multinational empires to immigrant societies—and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works—and how it should work—in multicultural societies like the United States. Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, moving quickly from theory to practical issues, concrete examples, and hard questions. His concluding argument is focused on the contemporary United States and represents an effort to join and advance the debates about "culture war," the "politics of difference," and the "disuniting of America." Although he takes a grim view of contemporary politics, he is optimistic about the possibility of coexistence: cultural pluralism and a common citizenship can go together, he suggests, in a strong and egalitarian democracy.
Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation
Author: Ole Peter Grell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An expert re-interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in early modern Europe.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894128
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
An expert re-interpretation of how religious toleration and conflict developed in early modern Europe.
Toleration in Conflict
Author: Rainer Forst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521885779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521885779
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.
Conscience and Community
Author: Andrew R. Murphy
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271075945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional emergence of toleration to find not a series of self-evident or logically connected expansions but instead a far more complex evolution. Murphy argues that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the actual historical development of toleration in theory and practice. Murphy approaches the concept through three "myths" about religious toleration: that it was opposed only by ignorant, narrow-minded persecutors; that it was achieved by skeptical Enlightenment rationalists; and that tolerationist arguments generalize easily from religion to issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, providing a basis for identity politics.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271075945
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional emergence of toleration to find not a series of self-evident or logically connected expansions but instead a far more complex evolution. Murphy argues that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the actual historical development of toleration in theory and practice. Murphy approaches the concept through three "myths" about religious toleration: that it was opposed only by ignorant, narrow-minded persecutors; that it was achieved by skeptical Enlightenment rationalists; and that tolerationist arguments generalize easily from religion to issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, providing a basis for identity politics.