Locke Tolerat Early Enlighten Cult

John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England Ireland France Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of ''universal religious toleration''. He analyzes early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration for the intolerant atheists ''libertines'' and ''sodomites''; and the complex relationships between intolerance and resistance theories including Locke''s own Treatises.