Toleration on trial / edited by Ingrid Creppell, Russell Hardin, and Stephen Macedo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Creppell, Ingrid.

Hardin, Russell, 1940-

Macedo, Stephen, 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toleration--Political aspects.

Toleration.

Group identity.

Social conflict.

Physical Description:

ix, 307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2008]

Summary:

Toleration on Trial offers the only multidisciplinary study available on the issue of toleration, bringing together political psychologists, philosophers, sociologists, Islamic scholars, and political theorists to examine the most pressing debates in the field. The volume addresses the toleration question from a number of angles: toleration and its application to gay rights; Islam and toleration; institutional, ideological, and psychological preconditions for its practice; and philosophical and conceptual arguments for the principle of toleration.

The common thread running throughout the volume is the core question: Is toleration primarily a product of institutional arrangements, or is it an attitude of individuals? To answer this adequately, the authors believe that a contemporary analysis of the possibility, significance, and requirements of toleration must be fully cognizant of the democratic-or, more accurately, politically mobilized-background in which toleration becomes a difficult issue. Conflicts between deeply divided groups within nations and between groups across political boundaries pose the issue of threat and risk to a practice or way of life that many people find difficult to accept.

Can the idea and practice of toleration manage these in politically and ethically defensible ways? These essays address various aspects of the aim to establish or strengthen toleration among politically mobilized groups in a context of contemporary democratic challenges.

Contents:

Part I Conceptualizing Toleration

2 The Limits of Toleration / Rainer Forst 17

3 Institutionalizing Toleration / Jack Knight 31

4 Toleration and Self-Skepticism / Dimitri Landa 49

5 Commentary: Tolerant Institutions / John Ferejohn 73

Part II Toleration and Sexuality

6 Of Socinians and Homosexuals: Trust and the Limits of Toleration / Richard H. Dees 85

7 Toleration as Recognition: The Case for Same-Sex Marriage / Anna Elisabetta Galeotti 111

8 Commentary: Liberal Toleration, Recognition, and Same-Sex Marriage: A Response to Richard H. Dees and Anna Elisabetta Galeotti / George Klosko 135

Part III Toleration and Religion

9 Tropes and Challenges of Islamic Toleration / Charles Kurzman 153

10 Toleration in Modern Islamic Polity: Contemporary Islamic Views / Emad Shahin 169

11 Reason, Tradition and Authority: Religion and the Indian State / Pratap Mehta 193

12 Commentary: Muslim Societies, Muslim Minorities / Nathan Brown 215

Part IV Toleration and Psychology

13 The Authoritarian Dynamic: Racial, Political and Moral Intolerance Under Conditions of Societal Threat / Karen Stenner 225

14 Is Intolerance Incorrigible? An Analysis of Change Among Russians / James Gibson 257

15 Commentary: Institutions, Individuals and the Sources of Toleration / Steven Kelts 287.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739115237

0739115235

9780739115244

0739115243

OCLC:

174134084