Early Modern Toleration

<p>This book examines the practice of toleration and the experience of religious diversity in the early modern world.</p><p>Recent scholarship has shown the myriad ways in which religious differences were accommodated in the early modern era (1500–1800). This book propels this revisionist wave further by linking the accommodation of religious diversity in early modern communities to the experience of this diversity by individuals. It does so by studying the forms and patterns of interaction between members of different religious groups including Christian denominations Muslims and Jews in territories ranging from Europe to the Americas and South-East Asia. This book<i> </i>is structured around five key concepts: the senses identities boundaries interaction and space. For each concept the book provides chapters based on new original research plus an introduction that situates the chapters in their historiographic context. </p><p><em>Early Modern Toleration: New Approaches</em> is aimed primarily at undergraduate and postgraduate students to whom it offers an accessible introduction to the study of religious toleration in the early modern era. Additionally scholars will find cutting-edge contributions to the field in the book’s chapters.</p>