In the name of God : the role of religion in the modern world, a history of Judeo-Christian and Islamic tolerance / Selina O'Grady.
Material type: TextPublisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: First Pegasus books hardcover editionDescription: xvi, 462 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781643135076 (hardcover)
- 1643135074 (hardcover)
- 201.7 23
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 430-443) and index.
Introduction -- 1. The Birth of Persecution: The Roman Empire Turns Christian -- 2. Muhammad's Edict of Toleration -- 3. The Price of Toleration: The Dhimmi in the Islamic Empire -- 4. Islam's Inquisition -- 5. The Problems of Assimilation: Willing Martyrs -- 6. Austerity in England and the Papal Battle for Supremacy -- 7. The Crusades: The Church Finds Its Enemy -- 8. The Moneylender -- 9. Enemies Within: The Heretic, the Leper, the Sodomite and the Jew -- 10. The Mongols and the 'Closing of the Door' -- 11. The Black Death: An Experiment in Tolerance -- 12. Inquisitions and Expulsions -- 13. The Reformation's War Against the Catholic Church -- 14. The Ghetto -- 15. The Religious Wars of Europe -- 16 Sunnis vs Shiites -- 17. The Puritan Who Fought the Puritans -- 18. America Writes God out of the Constitution -- 19. Robespierre's New Religion -- 20. Ibn Abd al-Wahhab vs the Islamic Enlightenment -- 21. Emancipation and the Failure of Tolerance -- 22. The Genocidal Century -- Conclusion.
"Selina O'Grady examines how and why the post-Christian and the Islamic worlds came to be as tolerant or intolerant as they are."--from publisher.