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Title: How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West by Perez Zagorin ISBN: 0-691-09270-2 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 25 August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: Questionable Thesis
Comment: Zagorin's thesis is that the key to the West's religious tolerance is the large body of theoretical/political/philosophical writings supporting tolerance -- writings that give the idea more heft, cultural significance, and endurance than it could have had without them. True enough, but in order to suggest this body of writings as the key to our heritage of tolerance, Zagorin explicitly downplays the significance of two other keys: 1) the spread of disbelief/skepticism, and 2) the fears, the political and economic instability, and the human tragedies created by religious wars. But the evidence he presents shows that these two were precisely what inspired the body of writings! Even Sebastian Castellio, Zagorin's "hero" in this book, speaks again and again about the obscurity and difficulty of the doctrines of baptism, predestination, and trinity, and how the difficulty leads to disbelief and therefore controversy and therefore pain and suffering. A pleasant but unimportant book.
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Title: Why Societies Need Dissent : by Cass R. Sunstein ISBN: 0674012682 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Enlightenment against Empire by Sankar Muthu ISBN: 0691115176 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 11 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: For the Glory of God : How Monotheism Led to Reformations, Science, Witch-Hunts, and the End of Slavery by Rodney Stark ISBN: 0691114366 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 24 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Sorrows of Empire : Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic [The American Empire Project ] by Chalmers Johnson ISBN: 0805070044 Publisher: Metropolitan Books Pub. Date: 13 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Dust of Empire: The Race for Mastery in the Asian Heartland by Karl Ernest Meyer ISBN: 1586480480 Publisher: PublicAffairs Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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