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Divided by faith : religious conflict and the practice of toleration in early modern Europe / Benjamin J. Kaplan.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 415 pages) : illustrations, mapsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780674039308
  • 0674039300
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Divided by faith.DDC classification:
  • 274.06 22
LOC classification:
  • BR145.3 .K37 2007
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Obstacles -- A holy zeal -- Corpus christianum -- Flashpoints -- One faith, one law, one king -- Arrangements -- The gold coin -- Crossing borders -- Fictions of privacy -- Sharing churches, sharing power -- Interactions -- A friend to the person -- Transgressions -- Infidels -- Changes -- Enlightenment.
Summary: As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Print version record.

Obstacles -- A holy zeal -- Corpus christianum -- Flashpoints -- One faith, one law, one king -- Arrangements -- The gold coin -- Crossing borders -- Fictions of privacy -- Sharing churches, sharing power -- Interactions -- A friend to the person -- Transgressions -- Infidels -- Changes -- Enlightenment.

As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today.