CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. INTRODUCTION 1
4. RELIGION AND THE IMAGINATION 7
5. PART 1. CLASSICAL WESTERN APPROACHES TO TOLERATION
6. A FORM OF LIBERTY AND INDULGENCE: Toleration as a Layered Institution 37
7. HOW TO DEFINE SECULARISM 59
8. SECULARISM: Its Content and Context 79
9. HALF-TOLERATION: Concordia and the Limits of Dialogue 130
10. PART 2. BEFORE AND BEYOND CLASSICAL APPROACHES TO TOLERATION
11. BEYOND TOLERATION: Civility and Principled Coexistence in Ashokan Edicts 173
12. EMPIRE AND TOLERATION: A Comparative Sociology of Toleration Within Empire 203
13. MODERNITY, STATE, AND TOLERATION IN INDIAN HISTORY: Exploring Accommodations and Partitions 233
14. MUSLIMS AND TOLERATION: Unexamined Contributions to the Multiple Secularisms of Modern Democracies 267
15. CONTRIBUTORS 297
16. INDEX 301