04260nam 2200637 450 991048037140332120200929155923.00-271-03176-X10.1515/9780271031767(CKB)1000000000466326(MH)008553791-8(SSID)ssj0000128931(PQKBManifestationID)12034837(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000128931(PQKBWorkID)10070259(PQKB)10077452(MiAaPQ)EBC6224027(DE-B1597)584173(DE-B1597)9780271031767(EXLCZ)99100000000046632620200929d2001 ub 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrConscience and community revisiting toleration and religious dissent in early modern England and America /Andrew R. MurphyUniversity Park, Pennsylvania :The Pennsylvania State University Press,[2001]©20011 online resource (xxii, 337 p. )Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-271-02105-5 Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-327) and index."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."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.Religious toleranceEnglandHistory17th centuryReligious toleranceMassachusettsHistory17th centuryReligious tolerancePennsylvaniaHistory17th centuryDissenters, ReligiousEnglandHistory17th centuryLiberalismReligious aspectsElectronic books.Religious toleranceHistoryReligious toleranceHistoryReligious toleranceHistoryDissenters, ReligiousHistoryLiberalismReligious aspects.323.44209032Murphy Andrew R.1967-906858MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910480371403321Conscience and community2483428UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress