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PERSECUTION & TOLERATION

The Long Road to Religious Freedom

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 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.

Noel Johnson is Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center.

Mark Koyama is Associate Professor of Economics at George Mason University and a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center. He was a 20172018 National Fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution.

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Persecution & Toleration

The Long Road to Religious Freedom

NOEL D. JOHNSON

George Mason University, Virginia

MARK KOYAMA

George Mason University, Virginia

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Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781108425025

DOI: 10.1017/9781108348102

Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama 2019

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 2019

Printed in the United Kingdom by TJ International Ltd. Padstow Cornwall

A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Johnson, Noel D., author.

Title: Persecution & toleration : the long road to religious freedom / Noel D. Johnson, George Mason University, Virginia, Mark Koyama, George Mason University, Virginia.

Other titles: Persecution and toleration

Description: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018038012 | ISBN 9781108425025

Subjects: LCSH: Religion and state. | Freedom of religion. | Religious tolerance.

Classification: LCC BL65.S8 J64 2018 | DDC 323.44/2dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018038012

ISBN 978-1-108-42502-5 Hardback

ISBN 978-1-108-44116-2 Paperback

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Preface

Today many liberal values are under pressure as a result of tensions arising from a complex combination of economic stress, populism, and large-scale immigration. Religious freedom is a crucial component of liberalism. Yet both ordinary language and judicial interpretations of what this freedom entails and what it means to be tolerant are increasingly contested.

In this environment, it is ever more important to understand the origins and development of liberal values such as religious freedom. This is the aim of our book. We seek to understand the rise of religious freedom in Western Europe from the Middle Ages to the modern age.

In so doing we provide a history of the rise of liberalism and of modern states. The Canadian philosopher Charles Taylor describes the present as A Secular Age (). Church attendance is falling, not only in Western Europe where the decline has been evident for decades, but also more recently in North America. But this should not obscure the importance of religion for understanding either past societies or the present. Not least, the freedom of individuals to choose their own religious faith is crucial to the more general principles of freedom of thought and freedom of conscience. To put it bluntly, to understand the rise of liberalism, one has to study the history of religious freedom. And to understand religious freedom, one needs to study the historical relationship between religion and the state.

Religious freedom did not exist in the premodern world. Because of the role religion played in upholding political order by offering legitimacy to rulers, political elites sought control over religious practice. In the absence of genuine religious freedom, there was at best what we call conditional toleration .

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