Persecution & toleration : the long road to religious freedom /
Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value, something beyond question. Yet how it emerged, and why, remains widely misunderstood. Tracing the history...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
[2019]
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Toleration, persecution, and state capacity
- Religion and the state in the premodern world
- Why do states persecute?
- Jewish communities, conditional toleration, and rent-seeking
- Climatic shocks and persecutions
- The shock of the Black Death
- State building and the Reformation
- The Inquisition and the establishment of religious homogeneity in Spain
- From confessionalization to toleration and then to religious liberty
- From persecution to emancipation
- The persecution of witchcraft
- Religious minorities and economic growth
- The emergence of modern states, religious freedom, and modern economic growth
- Applying our argument to the rest of the world
- Modern states, liberalism, and religious freedom
- Conclusions.