Drawing on pamphlets and broadsides, newspaper exchanges, document collections, personal diaries, church records and legislative journals, this book shows how early Americans learned to live amid a great diversity of beliefs and modes of worship. It examines the factors that contributed to the cultural revolution that took place in America.
Examines the nature of community and religion in the United States, traces the origins of religious freedom along with its advances and setbacks, and surveys the diverse range of religious faith throughout the nation.
Tim Tate, Child Pornography (London: Methuen, 1990), 13. I feel uneasy quoting Tate with approval, since in the early 1990s he emerged as a leading advocate of the reality for a “Satanic ritual abuse” menace in the United Kingdom, ...
In Beyond the Persecuting Society John Christian Laursen, Cary J. Nederman, and nine other scholars dismantle this second generalization.
Beyond the Persecuting Society constructs a history of toleration from the Middle Ages through the seventeenth century.
Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism
Very diverse societies pose real problems for Rawlsian models of public reason. This is for two reasons: first, public reason is unable accommodate diverse perspectives in determining a regulative ideal.
Beyond Tolerance: (Why Tolerance Cannot Solve the Problem of Religious-Based Conflict and What the Real Answer Is) What Everyone Needs...
In this volume, contributors suggest we also think beyond toleration to mutual respect, practiced before the creation of modern multiculturalism in the West.
As these essays demonstrate, the implications of this conversation continue to resound in contemporary religious communities and political discourse.
The essays in this book attempt to piece together the intentions and effects of key works from this literature in the promotion or rejection of toleration in theory and practice.