Toleration On Trial

by Creppell, Ingrid; Hardin, Russell; Macedo, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780739115237
• ISBN10: 0739115235
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-01-28
• Publisher: Lexington Books

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.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. 1
Conceptualizing Toleration
The Limits of Toleration	p. 17
Institutionalizing Toleration	p. 31
Toleration and Self-Skepticism	p. 49
Commentary: Tolerant Institutions	p. 73
Toleration and Sexuality
Of Socinians and Homosexuals: Trust and the Limits of Toleration	p. 85
Toleration as Recognition: The Case for Same-Sex Marriage	p. 111
Commentary: Liberal Toleration, Recognition, and Same-Sex Marriage: A Response to Richard H. Dees and Anna Elisabetta Galeotti	p. 135
Toleration and Religion
Tropes and Challenges of Islamic Toleration	p. 153
Toleration in Modern Islamic Polity: Contemporary Islamic Views	p. 169
Reason, Tradition and Authority: Religion and the Indian State	p. 193
Commentary: Muslim Societies, Muslim Minorities	p. 215
Toleration and Psychology
The Authoritarian Dynamic: Racial, Political and Moral Intolerance Under Conditions of Societal Threat	p. 225
Is Intolerance Incorrigible? An Analysis of Change Among Russians	p. 257
Commentary: Institutions, Individuals and the Sources of Toleration	p. 287
Index	p. 297
About the Contributors	p. 305
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