Religious toleration

The cross of the war memorial and a menorah for Hanukkah coexist in Oxford.

In Sweden, religions coexist: Katarina Church and the minaret of the Stockholm Mosque.

Religious toleration is people allowing other people to think or practice other religions and beliefs. In a country with a state religion, toleration means that the government allows other religions to be there. Many countries in past centuries allowed other religions but only in privacy. This has become rare. Others allow public religion but practice religious discrimination in other ways. It allow to follow and practice.

Religious Toleration Media

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  "Tomb with hands" in Roermond. Jacob van Gorcum, a Protestant (of the Reformed Church), who died in 1880 and his wife Josephina, a Catholic, who died in 1888, are buried in the Protestant and Catholic cemeteries respectively, but their tombs are joined by "hands" over the wall.

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  Minerva as a symbol of enlightened wisdom protects the believers of all religions (Daniel Chodowiecki, 1791)

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  Pope Clement VI Cameo

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  HansHolbeind.J.ErasmusLouvre

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  Sebastian Castellio (1515-1563)

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  Original act of the Warsaw Confederation 1573 – the official sanctioning of religious freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth

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  Portrait of John Milton in National Portrait Gallery, London (detail)

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  The Maryland Toleration Act, passed in 1649.

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  Frederick Lamb's painting of William Penn IMG 3800

Related pages

• Freedom of religion
• Religious persecution
• Multiculturalism
• Ecumenism
• Islamophobia
• Toleration
• Pluralism

More reading

• Barzilai, Gad (2007). Law and Religion. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-2494-3.
• Beneke, Chris (September 2006). Beyond Toleration: The Religious Origins of American Pluralism. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN 0-19-530555-8.
• Coffey, John (2000). Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689. Longman Publishing Group. ISBN 0-582-30465-2.
• Curry, Thomas J. (1989-12-19). Church and State in America to the Passage of the First Amendment. Oxford University Press; Reprint edition (December 19, 1989). ISBN 0-19-505181-5.
• Grell, Ole Peter, and Roy Porter, ed. (2000). Toleration in Enlightenment Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521651967.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Hamilton, Marci A. (2005-06-17). God vs. the Gavel : Religion and the Rule of Law. Edward R. Becker (Foreword). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-85304-4.
• Hanson, Charles P. (1998). Necessary Virtue: The Pragmatic Origins of Religious Liberty in New England. University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0813917948.
• Kaplan, Benjamin J. (2007). Divided by Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe. Belknap Press. ISBN 978-0674024304.
• Laursen, John Christian and Nederman, Cary, ed. (December 1997). Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment. University of Pennsylvania Press (December 1997). ISBN 0-8122-3331-X.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: editors list (link)
• Murphy, Andrew R. (July 2001). Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America. Pennsylvania State University Press. ISBN 0-271-02105-5.
• Walsham, Alexandra (September 2006). Charitable Hatred: Tolerance and Intolerance in England, 1500-1700. Manchester University Press. ISBN 0719052394.
• Zagorin, Perez (2003). How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-12142-7.

Other websites

• Religious Tolerance at the Open Directory Project
• History of Religious Tolerance Archived 2007-09-27 at the Wayback Machine