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Index
Cover
Contents
Preface
1. Two Tolerance Visions: From John Locke to PBS
John Locke and Religious Toleration
Tolerance Three Hundred Years Later: PBS Extols Tolerance
Competing Appeals
A Different View
2. Some Arduous Choices on the Road to Social Harmony
Defining "Tolerance"
Achieving Tranquility without Tolerance?
Calibrating Tolerance
Coerced Tolerance?
Limiting Tolerance
Conclusion: Making Choices
Notes
3. Preaching the Tolerance Gospel
Attitudes are Fundamental
Appreciating Diversity
Combating Stereotypes
Relativism
Distorting Reality
Conclusions
Notes
4. Empirical Foundations
Can Tolerance be Taught?
Do Tolerance Attitudes Predict Tolerant Behavior?
Can Tolerance Education Bring About a Tolerant Society?
Conclusions
Notes
5. Bringing Tolerance by Criminalizing Hate
The Meaning of "Hate Crime"
The Rise of the Hate Crime
The Alleged Hate Crime Epidemic
Conclusions
Notes
6. Summing Up and a Disconcerting Alert
Why Teach "Appreciate Differences" Tolerance?
The Awaiting Failure
Less Obvious Motives: Easy Solutions
Less Obvious Motives: The Hidden Political Agenda
Proselytizing
Teaching Tolerance for Homosexuality
Conclusions
Notes
An Epilogue
A More Serious Danger
Notes
References
Index
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