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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: How to Write About Toleration -- Chapter One: Personal Attitudes and political Arrangements -- Chapter Two: Five Regimes of Toleration -- Multinational Empires -- International Society -- Consociations -- Nation-States -- Immigrant Societies -- Summary -- Chapter Three: Complicated Cases -- France -- Israel -- Canada -- The European Community -- Chapter Four: Practical Issues -- Power -- Class -- Gender -- Religion -- Education -- Civil Religion -- Tolerating the Intolerant -- Chapter Five: Modern and Postmodern Toleration -- The Modern Projects -- Postmodernity¿ -- Epilogue: Reflections on American Multiculturalism -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Arguments for toleration -- Trust and the rationality of toleration -- The conversion to toleration -- Establishing toleration -- Of socinians : toleration and the limits of trust -- Of homosexuals : trust and the practices of public reason -- Epilogue: Balancing trust and toleration.

If we are to understand the concept of toleration in terms of everyday life, we must address a key philosophical and political tension: the call for restraint when encountering apparently wrong beliefs and actions versus the good reasons for interfering with the lives of the subjects of these beliefs and actions. This collection contains original contributions to the ongoing debate on the nature of toleration, including its definition, historical development, justification, and limits. In exploring the issues surrounding toleration, the essays address a variety of provocative questions. Is to

This collection of essays explores conceptions of toleration and tolerance in Asia and the West. It tests the assumption in contemporary Western political discourse and theory that toleration is a uniquely Western virtue and finds that many other traditions have comparable ideas and practices in grappling with religious and cultural diversity.

These essays relate philosophical questions about the meaning and justification of toleration to debates about such issues as religious freedom, racial discrimination, pornography and censorship.

Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, in the context of deep and difficult conflicts over ideological, cultural, and identity issues in today's mobilized political environment. The importance of individual attitudes and institutional/cultural arrangements is explored as a central axis in the meaning of toleration as a principle and practically in relation to demands for toleration of religious expression, gay rights, and the Islamic sources of toleration

A letter concerning toleration / Locke -- From the Second treatise (in Two treatises of government, 2nd edn, 1698) / Locke -- From An essay concerning human understanding (4th edn, 1700) / Locke -- The argument of the Letter concerning toleration, briefly considered and answered / Proast -- From A second letter concerning toleration (1690) / Locke -- From A third letter concerning toleration in defence of the Argument of the letter concerning toleration, briefly considered and answered (1691) / Proast -- From A third letter for toleration (1692) / Locke -- From A second letter to the author of the three Letters for toleration (1704) / Proast -- From A fourth letter for toleration (1704) / Locke

Toleration : a call to arms -- Opposition and restraint -- Toleration from scepticism -- Toleration from value pluralism -- Toleration from reasonableness -- Political harm : the liberal paradigm -- Culture and citizenship : headscarves and circumcision -- Artistic expression -- Pornography and censorship -- Holocaust denial -- Conclusion : new challenges for liberal toleration.

Toleration: The Liberal Virtue is a defense of toleration as a remedy to societal conflict caused by differences. It examines four prominent grounds of toleration: skepticism, prudence, autonomy, and conscience which are illustrated through the works of four pioneering liberals, namely, Michel de Montaigne, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and Pierre Bayle, respectively.