Hinduism, Christianity, and Liberal Religious Toleration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6349809 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeff Spinner-Halev (0000-0001-6328-7713, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 28-57 |
| Publication date | 2005-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-5917 • E-ISSN: 1552-7476 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0090591704271472 |
| OpenAlex | W2092149784 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 1 |
The Protestant conception of religion as a private matter of conscience organized into voluntary associations informed early liberalism’s conception of religion and of religious toleration, assumptions that are still present in contemporary liberalism. In many other religions, however, including Hinduism (the main though not only focus of this article), practice has a much larger role than conscience. Hinduism is not a voluntary association, and the structure of its practices, some of which are inegalitarian, makes exit very difficult. This makes liberal religious toleration an awkward fit for Hinduism; granting religious toleration in India undermines equality and autonomy in severe ways. Yet Hinduism is not without its virtues, and has historically been what I call externally tolerant—it has been relatively tolerant of other religions. Liberal toleration, by contrast, is internally tolerant—it is tolerant of religions that fit the Protestant model, while its tolerance of others is considerably more qualified. I briefly speculate at the end of the article about how to combine these two models of toleration
Autonomy · Christianity · Conscience · Hinduism · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Sociology · Toleration · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
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Self-Determination and Secession
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The Religious and the Political
Handbook of Leaving Religion
U.S. Foreign Policy and the Defense of Religious Freedom in India
John Rawls’s Theology of Liberal Toleration
The Secular State and Religious Conflict
Islam, Religious Revival and the Sovereign State
Rescuing Liberalism from Critical Religion
Religion, secularity, culture? Investigating Christian privilege in Western Europe
Hinsides sekularisme og hvad så
On the limits of the political
Jizyaagainst Nationalism
On religious and secular exemptions
Atheism, secularism and toleration
Managing religions, citizenship and the liberal paradox
Brahman wives and pedagogies of conscience in mid-nineteenth century British India
| Unique citing works | 22 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |