Religious Tolerance : A History

By Arvind Sharma

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Religion has become a vital element in identity politics globally after the terror attacks of 11 September 2001 in the United States of America. And so the question of how religious tolerance may be secured in the modern world can no longer be avoided. Can religious tolerance be placed on a firmer footing by finding grounds for it within the different faiths themselves? This book addresses that question. In Religious Tolerance: A History, Arvind Sharma examines Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Daoism and Shinto – whose followers together cover over two-thirds of the globe – to identify instances of tolerance in the history of each of these to help the discussion proceed on the basis of historical facts. This is a timely book – the first of its kind in scope and ambition.

Pages: 584

Available in: Hardback

Language: English

Arvind Sharma

Formerly of the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Arvind Sharma is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion in the School of Religious Studies at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. He has also taught in universities in Australia (Queensland, Sydney), the United States (Northeastern, Temple, Boston, Harvard) and India (Nalanda). He has also published extensively in the fields of Indology and comparative religion. He was instrumental, through three global conferences (2006, 2011, 2016), in facilitating the adoption of a Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the World’s Religions.

Books authored by him include Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography, Hinduism and Its Sense of History, Religious Tolerance: A History and The Ruler’s Gaze: A Study of British Rule over India from a Saidian Perspective. He is contributing editor of Our Religions: The Seven World Religions Introduced by Preeminent Scholars from Each Tradition, and series editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Religions.

A book refreshingly free of jargon … A thought-provoking and imaginative work that furthers the debate about how profoundly British colonialism affected India and Indians. - T.C.A. RAGHAVAN, INDIAN EXPRESS

Sharp and thought-provoking … An in-depth study on how misinformation and misinterpretation guided the way in which the myth called India was interpreted … Insightful, revealing and disturbing, and leads to multiple interpretations once the reader accepts that the Saidian frame of mind continues to remain relevant even today. - SUDHIRENDAR SHARMA, HINDUSTAN TIMES

Unifies three decades of Saidian studies of India to provide a comprehensive view of how colonial scholarship on India from the mid-nineteenth century onwards created an image of Indian society as backward, uncivilized and in decline, and thus legitimized British rule. - CARAVAN

A compelling critical study … A ‘Saidian’ endeavour to illuminate how India’s cultural brand was created through the lens of the West. - TIMES OF INDIA

Informed by Sharma’s ample scholarship and lucid writing, thus making it quite a pleasant read. - SONIA SAHOO, TELEGRAPH

‘One of the world’s great scholars of comparative religion’ - Mary Price Fisher, Author of Living Religions