John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture

by John Marshall

Book Overview

John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England, Ireland, France, Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. He analyzes early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052165114X
• ISBN13: 9780521651141
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 776 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"