Title Conscience and community : revisiting toleration and religious dissent in early modern England and America / Andrew R. Murphy

Published University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2001

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 337 pages) Contents "A Theological Scare-Crow" or "The Inward Persuasion of the Mind"? Conscience and Toleration in Historical, Philosophical, and Political Perspective -- Revisiting Early Modern Toleration and Religious Dissent -- Massachusetts Bay: Puritanism and the Politics of Religious Dissent -- The English Civil War, Commonwealth, and Protectorate: Unintentional, Unintended Toleration -- The Glorious Revolution: The 1640s All Over Again? -- Prosecution or Persecution? Quakers, Toleration, and Schism in Early Pennsylvania -- Revisiting Early Modern Toleration and Religious Dissent -- Toleration Across Time: Contemporary Issues in Theory and Practice -- Toleration and Political Liberalism: John Rawls's Shrinking Liberty of Conscience -- The Politics of Conscience and the Politics of Identity: The Limits and Promise of Liberal Toleration Summary "Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional account of the 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. The book seeks a renewed appreciation of the specificity that made religious toleration so divisive as well as the general tension between conscience and community that persists in contemporary societies."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-327) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Religious tolerance -- England -- History -- 17th century Religious tolerance -- Massachusetts -- History -- 17th century Religious tolerance -- Pennsylvania -- History -- 17th century Dissenters, Religious -- England -- History -- 17th century Liberalism -- Religious aspects. Free enterprise -- Religious aspects. 15.70 history of Europe. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. RELIGION / Christian Life / General Free enterprise -- Religious aspects Dissenters, Religious Liberalism -- Religious aspects Religious tolerance Religiöse Toleranz Godsdienstvrijheid. England Massachusetts Pennsylvania England Massachusetts Pennsylvania Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 00064977 ISBN 027103176X 9780271031767 9780271075945 0271075945 0271021055 9780271021058

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