Short description:

This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits. It brings together an array of historical and anthropological studies and philosophical, cognitive, and psychological explorations by established scholars from a range of disciplines.

Long description:

This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits. It brings together an array of historical and anthropological studies and philosophical, cognitive, and psychological explorations by established scholars from a range of disciplines.

The contributions feature modern and historic instances of tolerance and intolerance across a variety of geographies, societies, and religious traditions. They help readers to gain an understanding of the notion of tolerance and the historical consequences of intolerance from the perspective of different cultures, religions, and philosophies. The volume highlights tolerance?s potential to be a means to build bridges and at the same time determine limits.

Whilst the challenge of promoting tolerance has mostly been treated as a value or practice of demographic or religious majorities, this book offers a broader take and pays attention to minority perspectives. It is a valuable reference for scholars of religious studies, the sociology of religion, and the history of religion.

Table of Contents:

Section 1: CONCEPTUALISING TOLERANCE: Chapter 1 Defining Tolerance: Conditions and Resources for Tolerance; Chapter 2 A Social Psychological Approach to Tolerance: The Disapproval?Respect Model; Section 2: TOLERANCE WITHIN A RELIGIOUS CONTEXT AND AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT: Chapter 3 Reasons for Religious Toleration in the Roman Empire: The Voice of the Emperor; Chapter 4 Tolerance and Lived Religion; Chapter 5 Toleration and Cohabitation: Remarks on the Jews and the City in the Early Modern Period; Section 3: TOLERANCE IN JEWISH AND ISLAMIC TRADITIONS: Chapter 6 Theories of Tolerance in Jewish Philosophy; Chapter 7 The Fatimid Empire: a Case for Religious Toleration?; Chapter 8 Between Belief and Unbelief: Paradigms of Toleration in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Writings; Section 4: TOLERANCE IN THEOLOGY AND DIALOGUE: Chapter 9 Tolerance and Dialogue in Hamburg from one Perspective within Islamic Theology; Chapter 10 From Tolerance to Acceptance. Towards a New Paradigm of Interreligious Coexistence; Section 5: (IN)TOLERANCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY: Chapter 11 De (in)tolerantia Judaeorum: A Hitherto Almost Forgotten Source of Tolerance Studies in German Protestant University Archives?The Dissertationes; Chapter 12 On Tolerance and Intolerance in the University