Religious Tolerance in the Atlantic World: Early Modern and Contemporary Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Religious Tolerance in the Atlantic World: Early Modern and Contemporary Perspectives....Pages 1-13
Scripture and Toleration between Reformation and Enlightenment....Pages 14-40
Some Forms of Religious Liberty: Political Thinking, Ecclesiology and Religious Freedom in Early Modern England....Pages 41-72
Moral Logics of Enmity: Indians and English in Early America....Pages 73-110
Law and Civil Interest: William Penn’s Tolerationism....Pages 111-133
John Milton and Religious Tolerance: The Origins and Contradictions of the Western Tradition....Pages 134-148
Conformity, Loyalty and the Jesuit Mission to England of 1580....Pages 149-170
Commonwealth, Chosenness and Toleration: Reconsidering the Jews’ Readmission to England and the Idea of an Elect Nation....Pages 171-192
Present at the Creation: Diaspora, Hybridity and the Place of Jews in the History of English Toleration....Pages 193-213
Tolerating ‘Mahomet’: Or, Thinking about Then, Now....Pages 214-234
A Feminism of Convenience: Roger Williams, Egyptian Salafists and Liberty of Conscience for Women....Pages 235-252
Back Matter....Pages 253-275