Charitable hatred : tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500-1700
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Charitable hatred : tolerance and intolerance in England, 1500-1700
Manchester University Press, c2006
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Bibliography: p. 329-349
Includes index
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Charitable hatred offers a challenging new perspective on religious tolerance and intolerance in early modern England. Setting aside traditional models charting a linear progress from persecution to toleration, it emphasises instead the complex interplay between these two impulses in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The book examines the intellectual assumptions that underpinned attitudes towards religious minorities and the institutional structures and legal mechanisms by which they were both repressed and accommodated. It also explores the social realities of prejudice and forbearance, hostility and harmony at the level of the neighbourhood and parish. Simultaneously, it surveys the range of ways in which dissenting churches and groups responded and adapted to official and popular intolerance, investigating how the experience of suffering helped to forge sectarian identities. In analysing the consequences of the advancing pluralism of English society in the wake of the Reformation, this study illuminates the cultural processes that shaped and complicated the conditions of coexistence before and after the Act of Toleration of 1689. -- .
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
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