Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom

by Mark Koyama and Noel D. Johnson

Book Overview

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, Noel Johnson and Mark Koyama provide a novel explanation of the birth of religious...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 110842502X
• ISBN13: 9781108425025
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.8" x 9.3"