Boundaries of toleration

329 Pages·2014·1.01 MB·English

by  Taylor

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Edited by ALFRED STEPAN and CHARLES TAYLOR
BOUNDARIES OF TOLERATION
RELIGION, CULTURE, AND PUBLIC LIFE
Religion, Culture, and Public Life
series editors
Alfred Stepan and Mark C. Taylor
the resurgence of religion calls for careful analysis and constructive
criticism of new forms of intolerance, as well as new approaches to tolerance,
respect, mutual understanding, and accommodation. In order to promote
serious scholarship and informed debate, the Institute for Religion, Culture,
and Public Life and Columbia University Press are sponsoring a book series
devoted to the investigation of the role of religion in society and culture
today. This series includes works by scholars in religious studies, political sci-
ence, history, cultural anthropology, economics, social psychology, and other
allied fields whose work sustains multidisciplinary and comparative as well
as transnational analyses of historical and contemporary issues. The series
focuses on issues related to questions of difference, identity, and practice
within local, national, and international contexts. Special attention is paid
to the ways in which religious traditions encourage conflict, violence, and
intolerance and also support human rights, ecumenical values, and mutual
understanding. By mediating alternative methodologies and different reli-
gious, social, and cultural traditions, books published in this series will open
channels of communication that facilitate critical analysis.
After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement, edited by Courtney
Bender and Pamela E. Klassen
Religion and International Relations Theory, edited by Jack Snyder
Religion in America: A Political History, Denis Lacorne
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey, edited by Ahmet T. Kuru and
Alfred Stepan
Refiguring the Spiritual: Beuys, Barney, Turrell, Goldsworthy, Mark C. Taylor
Tolerance, Democracy, and Sufis in Senegal, edited by Mamadou Diouf
Rewiring the Real: In Conversation with William Gaddis, Richard Powers,
Mark Danielewski, and Don DeLillo, Mark C. Taylor
Democracy and Islam in Indonesia, edited by Mirjam Künkler and Alfred
Stepan
Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference, edited by Linell
E. Cady and Tracy Fessenden
Recovering Place: Reflections on Stone Hill, Mark C. Taylor
B O U N D A R I E S
OF TOLERATION
Edited by
ALFRED STEPAN
and
CHARLES TAYLOR
Columbia University Press
New York
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Boundaries of toleration / edited by Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor.
pages cm. — (Religion, culture, and public life)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-231-16566-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-231-16567-9 ( pbk. : alk. paper) —
ISBN 978-0-231-53633-2
1. Toleration—Philosophy. 2. Group identity 3. Social values I. Stepan, Alfred C.
HM1271.B68 2014
179' 9—dc23 2013025560
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To Mark Kingdon,
who made these conversations possible.

CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor
1
RELIGION AND THE IMAGINATION
Salman Rushdie with Gauri Viswanathan
7
PART 1
CLASSICAL WESTERN APPROACHES
TO TOLERATION
35
A FORM OF LIBERTY AND INDULGENCE:
Toleration as a Layered Institution
Ira Katznelson
37
CONTENTS
HOW TO DEFINE SECULARISM
Charles Taylor
59
SECULARISM:
Its Content and Context
Akeel Bilgrami
79
HALF-TOLERATION:
Concordia and the Limits of Dialogue
Nadia Urbinati
130
PART 2
BEFORE AND BEYOND CLASSICAL
APPROACHES TO TOLERATION
171
BEYOND TOLERATION:
Civility and Principled Coexistence in Ashokan Edicts
Rajeev Bhargava
173
EMPIRE AND TOLERATION:
A Comparative Sociology of Toleration Within Empire
Karen Barkey
203
viii
CONTENTS
MODERNITY, STATE, AND TOLERATION
IN INDIAN HISTORY:
Exploring Accommodations and Partitions
Sudipta Kaviraj
233
MUSLIMS AND TOLERATION:
Unexamined Contributions to the Multiple Secularisms
of Modern Democracies
Alfred Stepan
267
Contributors 297
Index 301
ix