Cultural History of Tolerance

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Covering the entire European system and its relations with the East and America, this first global history of tolerance in early modern Europe describes how the ideal of tolerance and its realisation transformed both the religious and political life of the modern world.

Covering the entire European system and its relations with the East and America, this first global history of tolerance in early modern Europe describes how the ideal of tolerance and its realisation transformed both the religious and political life of the modern world.

In the 16th century, Christianity was split apart by the Lutheran revolt, a fracture which would become a political one. Erasmus, Castellio, and the Socinians defended the freedom of conscience and of faith, and the right to belong to a heretical church. The violent political clashes in France, Holland, and Great Britain seemed to make the latter impossible, as the relationship between religion and politics was at the centre of those conflicts. The theory of a new politics was devised by Hobbes and developed by Spinoza and Locke: Sovereignty was not to be religious but secular, and tolerance would become civil liberty. A Cultural History of Tolerance shows how political power and religious doctrine together shaped both persecution and emerging ideas of tolerance, laying the groundwork for later debates.

This book is intended for professors, academic researchers, students, and general readers interested in early modern Europe, political ideas, and the history of religion.

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Introduction: Background: The Genesis of the Idea of Tolerance from the Gospel Age to the Middle Ages Part I: The 16th and 17th Centuries 1. From Catholic Unity to the Multiplicity of Worlds 2. Religious Freedom and Tolerance in the Age of the Reformation and Counter-Reformation 3. Practising Coexistence, Theorising Tolerance 4. The 17th Century: From Religious Tolerance to Modern Freedom Part II: From Religious Toleration to Political Freedom 5. The 16th Century: Community, Civic Religion, and the Need for Toleration 6. The 17th Century: The Strength of Faith 7. The 17th Century: Tolerance and Sovereignty 8. The 18th Century: Holland, Germany, and Empire 9. The 18th Century: After the Glorious Revolution – Great Britain 10. The 18th Century: France 11. The 18th Century: The American Revolution and Diderot