Tolerance and Intolerance in Religion and Beyond

ISBN-13: 9780367519353 / Twarda / 2023 / 182 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Section 1: CONCEPTUALISING TOLERANCE: Chapter 1 Defining Tolerance: Conditions and Resources for Tolerance; Chapter 2 A Social Psychological Approach to Tolerance: The Disapproval–Respect Model; Section 2: TOLERANCE WITHIN A RELIGIOUS CONTEXT AND AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT: Chapter 3 Reasons for Religious Toleration in the Roman Empire: The Voice of the Emperor; Chapter 4 Tolerance and Lived Religion; Chapter 5 Toleration and Cohabitation: Remarks on the Jews and the City in the Early Modern Period; Section 3: TOLERANCE IN JEWISH AND ISLAMIC TRADITIONS: Chapter 6 Theories of Tolerance in Jewish Philosophy; Chapter 7 The Fatimid Empire: a Case for Religious Toleration?; Chapter 8 Between Belief and Unbelief: Paradigms of Toleration in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Writings; Section 4: TOLERANCE IN THEOLOGY AND DIALOGUE: Chapter 9 Tolerance and Dialogue in Hamburg from one Perspective within Islamic Theology; Chapter 10 From Tolerance to Acceptance. Towards a New Paradigm of Interreligious Coexistence; Section 5: (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; Chapter 12 On Tolerance and Intolerance in the University

O autorze

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.