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Eurasian studies library volume Volume 16
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Author
Language
English
Description
Told from the perspective of precocious fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the fictional island of Finø, where people of all faiths coexist peacefully. Yet nothing is at it seems.
When Peter's parents suddenly go missing,
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Series
Celestine volume 4
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
The story of a new wave of religious tolerance and integrity that is now silently arriving, in reaction to watching years of religious warfare and political corruption. The year 2012 is not about the end of the world; it is about the unifying life of everyday miracles.
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The Price of Freedom Denied shows that, contrary to popular opinion, ensuring religious freedom for all reduces violent religious persecution and conflict. Others have suggested that restrictions on religion are necessary to maintain order or preserve a peaceful religious homogeneity. Brian J. Grim and Roger Finke show that restricting religious freedoms is associated with higher levels of violent persecution. Relying on a new source of coded data...
15) Forbearance and compulsion: the rhetoric of religious tolerance and intolerance in late antiquity
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Publisher
Duckworth
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them, because it is based on reasons for coexistence in conflict - that is, in continuing dissension. A critical examination of the concept makes clear, however, that its content and evaluation are profoundly contested matters and thus that the concept itself...