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Persecution & Toleration

Persecution & Toleration

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in Economics, Choice, and Society

EconomicsSocial Movements

ISBN10: 110842502X
ISBN13: 9781108425025
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 14 2019
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.40
Height: 0.90 Width: 8.80 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value, something beyond question. Yet how it emerged, and why, remains widely misunderstood. Tracing the history of religious persecution from the Fall of Rome to the present-day, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama provide a novel explanation of the birth of religious liberty. This book treats the subject in an integrative way by combining economic reasoning with historical evidence from medieval and early modern Europe. The authors elucidate the economic and political incentives that shaped the actions of political leaders during periods of state building and economic growth.

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