Persecution & toleration : the long road to religious freedom /

Persecution & toleration : the long road to religious freedom /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Johnson, Noel D., author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019. ©2019
Description:	xiv, 354 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society Cambridge studies in economics, choice, and society.
Subject:	Religion and state. Freedom of religion. Religious tolerance. Freedom of religion. Religion and state. Religious tolerance.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12774539

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Varying Form of Title:	Persecution and toleration
Other authors / contributors:	Koyama, Mark, 1982- author.
ISBN:	9781108425025 110842502X 9781108441162 1108441165
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-350) and index.
Summary:	"Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value, something beyond question. Yet how it emerged, and why, remains widely misunderstood. Tracing the history of religious persecution from the Fall of Rome to the present-day, [the authors] provide an...explanation of the birth of religious liberty. This book treats the subject in an integrative way by combining economic reasoning with historical evidence from medieval and early modern Europe. The authors elucidate the economic and political incentives that shaped the actions of political leaders during periods of state building and economic growth."--

Table of Contents:

Preface
Toleration, persecution, and state capacity
Religion and the state in the premodern world
Why do states persecute?
Jewish communities, conditional toleration, and rent-seeking
Climatic shocks and persecutions
The shock of the Black Death
State building and the Reformation
The Inquisition and the establishment of religious homogeneity in Spain
From confessionalization to toleration and then to religious liberty
From persecution to emancipation
The persecution of witchcraft
Religious minorities and economic growth
The emergence of modern states, religious freedom, and modern economic growth
Applying our argument to the rest of the world
Modern states, liberalism, and religious freedom
Conclusions.