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Toleration in Comparative Perspective (Global Encounters: Studies in Comparative Political Theory) by Vicki A. Spencer; Vicki A. Spencer; Takashi Shogimen; Scott L. Pratt; Ken Tsutsumibayashi; Karen Barkey; Asma Afsaruddin; Anne Mocko; Neelima Shukla-Bhatt; Purushottama Bilimoria; Benjamin Schonthal; Koichiro Matsuda; Kam-por Yu; Xiaogan Liu is a book available to read on EtoBox.
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Toleration in Comparative Perspective is a collection of essays that explores conceptions of toleration and tolerance in Asia and the West. It tests the common assumption in Western political discourse and contemporary political theory that toleration is a uniquely Western virtue. Toleration in modern Western philosophy is understood as principled noninterference in the practices and beliefs of others that one disapproves of or, at least, dislikes. Although toleration might be seen today as a quintessential liberal value, precedents to this modern concept also existed in medieval times while Indigenous American stories about welcome challenge the very possibility of noninterference. The modern Western philosophical concept of toleration is not always easily translated into other philosophical traditions, but this book opens a dialogue between various traditions of thought to explore precisely the ways in which overlap and distinctions exist. What emerges is the existence of a family of resemblances in approaches to religious and cultural diversity from a program of pragmatic noninterference in the Ottoman Empire to deeper notions of acceptance and inclusiveness amongst the Newar Pe
- Author
- Vicki A. Spencer; Vicki A. Spencer; Takashi Shogimen; Scott L. Pratt; Ken Tsutsumibayashi; Karen Barkey; Asma Afsaruddin; Anne Mocko; Neelima Shukla-Bhatt; Purushottama Bilimoria; Benjamin Schonthal; Koichiro Matsuda; Kam-por Yu; Xiaogan Liu
- Publisher
- Lexington Books, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781498530170
- Subjects
- Western, Religion, History
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