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

• Autore: Murphy Andrew R. <1967->
• Pubblicazione: University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2001]; ©2001
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxii, 337 p. )
• Disciplina: 323.44/2/09032
• Soggetto topico: 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
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-327) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: "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.
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Conscience and community
• ISBN: 0-271-03176-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910809036803321
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