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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

BY VIEWING TOLERATION--WHICH IS USUALLY INTERPRETED AS A PERSONAL ATTITUDE--THROUGH A LENS OF PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE, MICHAEL WALZER LINKS TOLERATION TO POLITICAL ARRANGEMENTS. THE CONSEQUENCE OF THIS APPROACH IS TO BLUR BASIC POLITICAL CATEGORIES SUCH AS THE STATE, POLITICAL POWER, CULTURE, AND POLITICAL CREED. MOREOVER, WHILE WALZER CLEARLY PREFERS AN IMMIGRATION SOCIETY AS EMBODYING THE PRACTICE OF TOLERATION MORE FULLY THAN ANY OTHER REGIME, HE FAILS TO IDENTIFY EITHER ITS CULTURAL OR ITS POLITICAL PRECONDITIONS.

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 as Recognition, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti, Cambridge,
Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. viii, 242In Toleration as Recognition Anna Elisabetta Galeotti offers
up a sympathetic critique of liberal toleration and suggests a
modification to the theory that she believes necessary in order to bring
cultural minorities into the public sphere as equal citizens. This
carefully argued book marks a timely contribution to the debate over group
rights and multiculturalism.

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.