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Toleration on Trial
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2008
Summary
Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the field. The volume addresses the toleration question from a number of angles: toleration and its application to gay rights; Islam and toleration; institutional, ideological, and psychological preconditions for its practice; and philosophical and conceptual arguments for the principle of toleration.
The common thread running throughout the volume is the core question: Is toleration primarily a product of institutional arrangements, or is it an attitude of individuals? To answer this adequately, the authors believe that a contemporary analysis of the possibility, significance and requirements of toleration must be fully cognizant of the democratic, or more accurately—politically mobilized—background in which toleration becomes a difficult issue. Conflicts between deeply divided groups within nations and between groups across political boundaries pose the issue of threat and risk to a practice or way of life that many peoples find difficult to accept.
Can the idea and practice of toleration manage these in politically and ethically defensible ways? These essays address various aspects of the aim to establish or strengthen toleration among politically mobilized groups, in a context of contemporary democratic challenges.
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Copyright year
2008
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-1523-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-3453-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
307
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
1 Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
2 The Limits of Toleration Rainer Forst No access Pages 17 - 30
3 Institutionalizing Toleration Jack Knight No access Pages 31 - 48
4 Toleration and Self-Skepticism Dimitri Landa No access Pages 49 - 72
5 Commentary: Tolerant Institutions John Ferejohn No access Pages 73 - 84
6 Of Socinians and Homosexuals: Trust and the Limits of Toleration Richard H. Dees No access Pages 85 - 110
7 Toleration as Recognition: The Case for Same-Sex Marriage Anna Elisabetta Galeotti No access Pages 111 - 134
8 Commentary: Liberal Toleration, Recognition, and Same-Sex Marriage: A Response to Richard H. Dees and Anna Elisabetta Galeotti George Klosko No access Pages 135 - 152
9 Tropes and Challenges of Islamic Toleration Charles Kurzman No access Pages 153 - 168
10 Toleration in Modern Islamic Polity: Contemporary Islamic Views Emad Shahin No access Pages 169 - 192
11 Reason, Tradition and Authority: Religion and the Indian State Pratap Mehta No access Pages 193 - 214
12 Commentary: Muslim Societies, Muslim Minorities Nathan Brown No access Pages 215 - 224
13 The Authoritarian Dynamic: Racial, Political and Moral Intolerance Under Conditions of Societal Threat Karen Stenner No access Pages 225 - 256
14 Is Intolerance Incorrigible? An Analysis of Change Among Russians James Gibson No access Pages 257 - 286
15 Commentary: Institutions, Individuals and the Sources of Toleration Steven Kelts No access Pages 287 - 296
Index No access Pages 297 - 304
About the Contributors No access Pages 305 - 307
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