Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe

by Benjamin J. Kaplan

Book Overview

As religious violence flares around the world, we are confronted with an acute dilemma: Can people coexist in peace when their basic beliefs are irreconcilable? Benjamin Kaplan responds by taking us back to early modern Europe, when the issue of religious toleration was no less pressing than it is today.

Divided by Faith begins in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, when the unity of western Christendom was shattered, and takes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674034732
• ISBN13: 9780674034730
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"