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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The others	Ṣabā Ḥirz	320 p. ; 21 cm	OL13770204W
The Crusades	Thomas Asbridge	From a renowned historian who writes with "maximum vividness" (The New Yorker) comes the most authoritative, readable single-volume historyof the brutal struggle for the Holy Land.Nine hundred years …	OL14936405W
The Price of Freedom Denied	Brian J. Grim	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 …	OL15990964W
The intolerance of tolerance	D. A. Carson	Tolerance currently occupies a very high place in Western societies: it is considered gauche, even boorish, to question it. In The Intolerance of Tolerance, however, questioning tolerance -- or, at l…	OL16002860W
Toleration in conflict	Rainer Forst	"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, be…	OL16654456W
Locke on toleration	John Locke	"John Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration (1689) is one of the most widely-read texts in the political theory of toleration, and a key text for the liberal tradition. However, Locke also defended to…	OL16934963W
The Lively Experiment	Chris Beneke	Three hundred and fifty years ago, Roger Williams launched one of the world's first great experiments in religious toleration. Insisting that religion be separated from civil power, he founded Rhode …	OL17307663W
It's Dangerous to Believe	Mary Eberstadt	Mary Eberstadt, “one of the most acute and creative social observers of our time,” (Francis Fukuyama) shines a much-needed spotlight on a disturbing trend in American society: discrimination against …	OL17588850W
Re flexions adresse es, le 25 mai 1790, a M. de Mirabeau l'ai ne , de pute a l'Assemble e nationale	Honoré-Gabriel de Riquetti comte de Mirabeau	Argues that principles of absolute free trade should control the port of Marseilles and attempts should be made to draw Moslem and Jewish merchants to the city.	OL17614818W
The emergence of tolerance in the Dutch Republic	Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck,Jonathan Irvine Israel,G. H. M. Posthumus Meyjes	vi, 278 pages ; 25 cm	OL19533642W
Hate spin	Cherian George	In the United States, elements of the religious right fuel fears of an existential Islamic threat, spreading anti-Muslim rhetoric into mainstream politics. In Indonesia, Muslim absolutists urge suppr…	OL20034887W
What makes us unique?	Jillian Roberts	A dynamic and approachable introduction to diversity.	OL20056405W
The Elephant Keepers' Children	Peter Høeg	Told from the precocious perspective of fourteen-year-old Peter, this book is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother…	OL20396947W
The truth about tolerance	Brad Stetson,Joseph G. Conti	The fundamental aim of this book is to stimulate reflection and writing on tolerance (both social and personal), particularly from a Christian point of view, and to affirm that personal and political…	OL20947694W
Religion or belief, discrimination and equality	Paul Weller	"Benchmark publication on religion, discrimination and equality, which contributes to international and global debates by using empirical data from the UK as a case study"-- "In recent years, contro…	OL20957307W
The Place of Tolerance in Islam	Khaled Abou El Fadl	"Khaled Abou El Fadl, a prominent critic of Islamic puritanism, leads off this lively debate by arguing that Islam is a deeply tolerant religion. Injunctions to violence against nonbelievers stem fro…	OL2214227W
Maz̲hab ke nām par k̲h̲ūn	Mirza Tahir Ahmad	Murder in the name of God; Ahmadiyya interpretation.	OL3882020W
Tolerance and Coercion in Islam	Yohanan Friedmann	Since the beginning of its history, Islam has encountered other religious communities both in Arabia and in the territories conquered during its expansion. Muslims faced other religions from the pos…	OL5263569W
Directed verdict	Randy Singer	In Saudi Arabia, two American missionaries are targeted by the infamous religious police--the Muttawa. The man is tortured and killed, his wife arrested on trumped-up charges before being deported to…	OL5814223W
Who are you to judge?	David Swavely	Who Are You To Judge? by Dave Swavely is a book that deals primarily with legalism. It defines judging and legalism in a biblical manner, and discusses two often-overlooked biblical commands: Do not …	OL5850002W