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Index
Cover
Half-title page
Series page
Title page
Imprints page
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 Toleration, Persecution, and State Capacity
1.1 Introduction
1.2 The Rise of Modern States and the Birth of Religious Liberty
1.3 A Conceptual Framework
I Conditional Toleration
2 Religion and the State in the Premodern World
2.1 Religious Legitimacy and the State
2.2 A Simple Model of Church and State
2.3 Applying the Model: The Medieval Equilibrium
2.4 The Absence of Persecution Does Not Imply Religious Freedom
2.5 Chapter Summary
3 Why Do States Persecute?
3.1 The Commercial Revolution, Religion, and Identity Rules
3.2 Rise of the Medieval State and the Persecuting Society
3.3 Chapter Summary: Persecutions and the Rise of States in Medieval Europe
4 Jewish Communities, Conditional Toleration, and Rent-Seeking
4.1 Rent-Seeking and Conditional Toleration
4.2 Jewish Moneylending
4.3 The Path to Expulsion in England
4.4 Chapter Summary and the Road to Expulsion in France
5 Climatic Shocks and Persecutions
5.1 The Vulnerability of the Conditional Toleration Equilibrium
5.2 Temperature Shocks and Jewish Persecutions across Europe
5.3 Chapter Summary: Climate Shocks on the Conditional Toleration Equilibrium
6 The Shock of the Black Death
6.1 The Black Death Pogroms
6.2 Black Death Pogroms across Europe
6.3 The Argument Thus Far …A Summary of Part I
II The Origins of Religious Freedom
7 State Building and the Reformation
7.1 The Reformation
7.2 State Building
7.3 The Reformation and Religious Persecution
7.4 Temporary Religious Toleration
7.5 Religious Peace Elsewhere in Europe
7.6 Chapter Summary: The Impact of the Reformation
8 The Inquisition and the Establishment of Religious Homogeneity in Spain
8.1 The Conversos “Problem”
8.2 The Threat of the Reformation in Spain
8.3 The Decline of Spain and the Continuation of the Inquisition
8.4 Chapter Summary: The Legacy of the Inquisition
9 From Confessionalization to Toleration and Then to Religious Liberty
9.1 The Breakdown of Conditional Toleration in the Holy Roman Empire
9.2 The Fall and Rise of Religious Toleration in France
9.3 The Emergence of a Modern State in England
9.4 Chapter Summary: The Rise of the State and the Abandonment of Religious Regulation
10 From Persecution to Emancipation
10.1 The Decline in Jewish Persecutions
10.2 Jewish Emancipation
10.3 The Argument Thus Far …A Summary of Part II
III Implications of Greater Religious Liberty
11 The Persecution of Witchcraft
11.1 Explanations for the European Witch Panic
11.2 Legal Fragmentation in France
11.3 Legal Centralization and the Decline in Witchcraft Trials
11.4 The Growth in Legal Capacity
11.5 Other Parts of Europe
11.6 Chapter Summary: Legal Centralization and Rule of Law
12 Religious Minorities and Economic Growth
12.1 Minorities and Economic Development
12.2 Jewish Communities and City Growth
12.3 The Relationship between Jewish Communities and City Growth
12.4 Access to the Network of Jewish Communities
12.5 Chapter Summary: Liberalism and Markets Enabled Religious Minorities to Contribute to Growth
13 The Emergence of Modern States, Religious Freedom, and Modern Economic Growth
13.1 The Idea of Religious Freedom: Hobbes, Hume, and Smith on the Role of Religion in a Commercial Society
13.2 Nationalism and General Rules
13.3 Fiscal Capacity and National Identity in Ancién Regime France
13.4 Modern States and Modern Economic Growth
13.5 Innovation and Modern Economic Growth
13.6 Chapter Summary: The Demise of Conditional Toleration and Modern Economic Growth
14 Applying Our Argument to the Rest of the World
14.1 The Middle East
14.2 China and Japan
14.3 The United States
14.4 Chapter Summary
15 Modern States, Liberalism, and Religious Freedom
15.1 Exclusionary versus Inclusive Nationalism
15.2 Power States
15.3 The Holocaust
15.4 Chapter Summary
16 Conclusions
16.1 A Summary of Our Argument
16.2 Alternative and Complementary Hypotheses
16.3 Implications of Our Argument for Today
Bibliography
Index
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