Religious tolerance in world religions

Today, and historically, religions often seem to be intolerant, narrow-minded, and zealous. But the record is not so one-sided. In Religious Tolerance in World Religions, numerous scholars offer perspectives on the ""what"" and ""why"" traditions of tolerance in world religions, beginning with the pre-Christian West, Greco-Roman paganism, and ancient Israelite Monotheism and moving into modern religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. By tolerance the authors mean ""the capacity to live with religious difference, and by toleration, the theory t

Part 1. Questions about religious toleration. The "what" and "why" of religious toleration: some questions to consider / William Scott Green -- Part 2. Ancient Israel. Tolerance in ancient Israelite monotheism / Baruch A. Levine -- Part 3. The pre-Christian west. Greco-Roman literary expressions of religious "tolerance" / Carolyn Dewald -- Greco-Roman paganism: the political foundations of tolerance in the Greco-Roman period / Robert M. Berchman -- Ritual resources of tolerance in Greco-Roman religion / Kevin Corrigan -- Part 4. Christianity. Tolerance and controversy in classical Christianity: the gospel according to Matthew and Justin Martyr / Bruce Chilton -- Roman Catholic understanding of religious tolerance in modern times: the second Vatican Council (Vatican II) / William Reiser -- The Latter-day Saint doctrine of salvation: religious exclusivity, tolerance, and accommodation / Danny L. Jorgensen.

Part 5. Judaism. Theological foundations of tolerance in classical Judaism / Jacob Neusner -- Tolerance of idols and idol worshipers in early rabbinic law: the case of Mishnah Tractate Avodah Zarah / Alan J. Avery-Peck -- Part 6. Islam. Sources of tolerance and tolerance in Islam…