CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Alfred Stepan and Charles Taylor

RELIGION AND THE IMAGINATION

Salman Rushdie with Gauri Viswanathan

PART 1

CLASSICAL WESTERN APPROACHES TO TOLERATION

A FORM OF LIBERTY AND INDULGENCE: Toleration as a Layered Institution

Ira Katznelson

HOW TO DEFINE SECULARISM

Charles Taylor

SECULARISM: Its Content and Context

Akeel Bilgrami

HALF-TOLERATION: Concordia and the Limits of Dialogue

Nadia Urbinati

PART 2

BEFORE AND BEYOND CLASSICAL APPROACHES TO TOLERATION

BEYOND TOLERATION: Civility and Principled Coexistence in Ashokan Edicts

Rajeev Bhargava

EMPIRE AND TOLERATION: A Comparative Sociology of Toleration Within Empire

Karen Barkey

MODERNITY, STATE, AND TOLERATION IN INDIAN HISTORY: Exploring Accommodations and Partitions

Sudipta Kaviraj

MUSLIMS AND TOLERATION: Unexamined Contributions to the Multiple Secularisms of Modern Democracies

Alfred Stepan

 

Contributors

Index