1st Edition

Tolerance and Intolerance in Religion and Beyond Challenges from the Past and in the Present

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on religious tolerance and intolerance in terms of practices, institutions, and intellectual habits. It brings together an array of historical and anthropological studies and philosophical, cognitive, and psychological explorations by established scholars from a range of disciplines. The contributions feature modern and historic instances of tolerance and intolerance across a... Read more

Section I: CONCEPTUALISING TOLERANCE

Chapter 1 Defining Tolerance: Conditions and Resources for Tolerance

Anne Sarah Matviyets (Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University of Hamburg)

Chapter 2 A Social Psychological Approach to Tolerance:

The Disapproval–Respect Model

Bernd Simon (Social and Political Psychology, University of Kiel)

Section II: TOLERANCE WITHIN A RELIGIOUS CONTEXT AND AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT

Chapter 3 Reasons for Religious Toleration in the Roman Empire: The Voice of the Emperor

Mar Marcos Sánchez (Ancient History, History of Religion, University of Cantabria)

Chapter 4 Tolerance and Lived Religion

Jörg Rüpke (Comparative Religious Studies, University of Erfurt)

Chapter 5 Toleration and Cohabitation: Remarks on the Jews and the City in the Early Modern Period

Cristiana Facchini (History of Christianity and Religious Studies, University of Bologna)

Section III: TOLERANCE IN JEWISH AND ISLAMIC TRADITIONS

Chapter 6 Theories of Tolerance in Jewish Philosophy

Warren Zev Harvey (Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Chapter 7 The Fatimid Empire: a Case for Religious Toleration?

Serena Tolino (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Bern)

Chapter 8 Between Belief and Unbelief: Paradigms of Toleration in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Writings

Bakinaz Abdalla (Philosophy, Theology, and Religion, University of Birmingham)

Section IV: TOLERANCE IN THEOLOGY AND DIALOGUE

Chapter 9 Tolerance and Dialogue in Hamburg from one Perspective within Islamic Theology

Shaykha Halima Krausen (Islamic Studies and Interreligious Dialogue, Academy of World Religions, University of Hamburg)

Chapter 10 From Tolerance to Acceptance. Towards a New Paradigm of Interreligious Coexistence

Georges Tamer (Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)

Section V: (IN)TOLERANCE IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY

Chapter 11 De (in)tolerantia Judaeorum: A Hitherto Almost Forgotten Source of Tolerance Studies in German Protestant University Archives—The Dissertationes

Giuseppe Veltri (Jewish Philosophy and Religion, University of Hamburg) and Guido Bartolucci (Early Modern History, University of Bologna)

Chapter 12 On Tolerance and Intolerance in the University

Anke Engemann and Christiane Thompson (Theory and History of Education, Goethe-University Frankfurt)

Biography

Anne Sarah Matviyets was a Research Associate and PhD student in the Department of Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg, where she pursued research on modern Jewish philosophy. Since May 2023 she is chief curator of the Berend Lehmann Museum for Jewish History and Culture in Halberstadt.

Giuseppe Veltri is a full professor of Jewish Philosophy and Religion at the University of Hamburg and the director of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies.

Jörg Rüpke is Fellow in Religious Studies and Vice-director of the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies of the University of Erfurt, Germany.