REL 2012 - Religion and Toleration

FDR: Humanities (HU)
Credits: 3

This seminar-style course considers the virtues and limitations of “tolerance” as a mode of engaging religious diversity. What does tolerance mean, and what does it require of both religious and non-religious people? When might tolerance be a problematic way of responding to religious claims or practices? How are tolerance and intolerance regulated - both within communities and by the state? This course will take up these questions, as well as a variety of theories of interfaith engagement and invitations to religious co-existence in political and cultural conflict.