Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America

by Andrew R. Murphy

Book Overview

Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional emergence of toleration to find not a series...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271021055
• ISBN13: 9780271021058
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"