{"product_id":"conscience-and-community-andrew-r-murphy-9780271023489","title":"Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America","description":"\u003cp\u003eReligious 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. \u003ci\u003eConscience and Community\u003c\/i\u003e 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 of self-evident or logically connected expansions but instead a far more complex evolution. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMurphy argues that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the actual historical development of toleration in theory and practice. Murphy approaches the concept through three \"myths\" about religious toleration: that it was opposed only by ignorant, narrow-minded persecutors; that it was achieved by skeptical Enlightenment rationalists; and that tolerationist arguments generalize easily from religion to issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, providing a basis for identity politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew R. Murphy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271023481\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271023489\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.98h x 5.62w x 0.87d","brand":"Andrew R. Murphy","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46383853338879,"sku":"9780271023489","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_af62afe6-a2de-4a72-8b5a-90fd5083936f.jpg?v=1733281870","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/conscience-and-community-andrew-r-murphy-9780271023489","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}