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Charitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Table of Contents

1 Introduction
2 Fraternal correction and holy violence: the pursuit of uniformity and the enforcement of religious orthodoxy
3 Godly zeal and furious rage: prejudice, persecution and the populace
4 Living amidst hostility: responses to intolerance
5 Loving one’s neighbours: tolerance in principle and practice
6 Coexisting with difference: religious pluralism and confessionalisation
Index

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      Publisher: Manchester University Press
      Publication Date: 9/16/2008 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780719052408, 978-0719052408
      ISBN10: 0719052408

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Charitable hatred presents a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Instead of charting a path of linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises the complex interplay between these two impulses throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

      Table of Contents

      1 Introduction
      2 Fraternal correction and holy violence: the pursuit of uniformity and the enforcement of religious orthodoxy
      3 Godly zeal and furious rage: prejudice, persecution and the populace
      4 Living amidst hostility: responses to intolerance
      5 Loving one’s neighbours: tolerance in principle and practice
      6 Coexisting with difference: religious pluralism and confessionalisation
      Index

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