Global encounters studies in comparative political theory
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262) and index.
Introduction / Vicki A. Spencer -- The West. William of Ockham and medieval discourses on toleration / Takashi Shogimen -- The metaphysics of toleration in American Indian philosophy / Scott L. Pratt -- Human fallibility and Locke's doctrine of toleration / Vicki A. Spencer -- Pierre Bayle and Benjamin Constant on toleration / Ken Tsutsumibayashi -- Southwest Asia. The Ottomans and toleration, / Karen Barkey -- Tolerance and pluralism in Islamic thought and praxis / Asma Afsaruddin -- South Asia. Tolerance in Nepal Mandala : communal relations and royal religious patronage in Malla-era Kathmandu / Anne Mocko -- The one in the many in the songs of poet-saints of medieval India : a cultural stance on tolerance / Neelima Shukla-Bhatt -- The limits of intolerance : a comparative reflection on India's experiment with tolerance / Purushottama Bilimoria -- The tolerations of Theravada Buddhism / Benjamin Schonthal -- East Asia. An intolerant but morally indifferent regime? : heresy and immorality in early modern Japan / Koichiro Matsuda -- Two conceptions of tolerating in Confucian thought / Kam-por Yu -- All embracing : a Laozian version of toleration / Xiaogan Liu -- Conclusion / Vicki A. Spencer.