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March 19, 2025

The Protestant Origins of Religious Tolerance

Not secularism but a new understanding of civic virtue gave birth to freedom of religion.

Sometime during the 17th or 18th century, large numbers of people in the West came to believe that a society could thrive despite a diversity of religious beliefs among its members. In his new book The Opening of the Protestant Mind, Mark Valeri provides a fresh look at how this happened, focusing on Great Britain and America. Glenn Moots writes in his review:

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