This volume examines the knotty relationship between toleration and religious freedom. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, it explores how

Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhap

In this book, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama tackle the question: how does religious liberty develop?

Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important inter