RELIGION, TOLERATION, AND POLITICS - Establishing Toleration
In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 27, Heft 5, S. 667-693
ISSN: 0090-5917
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In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 27, Heft 5, S. 667-693
ISSN: 0090-5917
This article recovers "evangelical toleration" as a neglected tradition in early modern political thought with important consequences for contemporary political theory and practice. Many political theorists dismiss the prudential arguments made by "proto-liberal" thinkers like Roger Williams or John Locke in favor of toleration as a necessary precondition for evangelism and conversion as intolerant, unacceptably instrumental, and inessential to their deeper theories. By contrast, critics of liberalism treat them as smoking gun evidence for an imperial and civilizing mission underlying liberal toleration. I argue that both sides underestimate evangelical toleration's genealogical and theoretical importance. Not only were evangelical considerations essential in shaping the particular institutions associated with toleration in England and America, the varieties of evangelical toleration represented by Williams and Locke shed significant light on the very different institutions—and intuitions—governing the expression of religious difference in liberal democracies today.
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In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 31, Heft 6, S. 757-779
ISSN: 1552-7476
Political liberals now defend what Rawls calls the "inclusive view" of public reason with the appropriate ideal of reasonable pluralism. Against the application of such a liberal conception of toleration to deliberative democracy "the open view of toleration is with no constraints" is the only regime of toleration that can be democratically justified. Recent debates about the public or nonpublic character of religious reasons provide a good test case and show why liberal deliberative theories are intolerant and fail to live up to democratic obligations to provide justifications to all members of the deliberative community. In a deliberative democracy, accommodations to religious minorities must be based on transformations in the current reflective equilibrium among the norms that make up the complex democratic ideal. This is not merely a conceptual enterprise of commensuration, since the need for any such transformation in standards of justification is due to changes in the nature of the polity itself, changes that in turn modify its regime of toleration.
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In: Journal of church and state: JCS, Band 41, Heft 1, S. 142-144
ISSN: 0021-969X
Baird reviews 'On Toleration' by Michael Walzer.
In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 23, Heft 2, S. 191-196
ISSN: 1743-8772
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In: Political theory: an international journal of political philosophy, Band 31, Heft 6, S. 757-779
ISSN: 0090-5917
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ISSN: 1591-8483
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In: Critical review of international social and political philosophy: CRISPP, Band 24, Heft 1, S. 87-107
ISSN: 1743-8772
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ISSN: 1468-2508
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ISSN: 0022-3816
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ISSN: 1741-2730