religious tolerance
Accepting different faiths
Religious tolerance is acceptance of or patience toward beliefs and practices different from one's own.
The term implies coexistence rather than endorsement—tolerating what you might privately consider wrong or misguided: The colony was founded on principles of religious tolerance.
A tolerant society permits diverse worship; an intolerant one restricts or persecutes minority faiths.
- Edict of NantesFrench Protestant tolerance proclamation
- Peace of Westphalia1648 sovereignty-establishing treaties
- live and let livePhilosophy of mutual tolerance
- peaceful coexistenceNon-hostile international relations
- ecumenismMovement toward religious unity
freedom · interfaith dialogue · rationalism · secularism · First Amendment · coexistence · equality · Vatican II · house of worship · Spinoza · pluralism · human rights · Enlightenment · religious pluralism · community building · anti-discrimination laws · Reformation · brotherhood
- Enlightened DespotsFrederick the Great, Catherine the Great, legal reform, codified laws, judicial reform
- religionChristianity, Islam, beliefs, Judaism, Hinduism
- Colonial AmericaGeorge Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, Benjamin Franklin, Declaration of Independence
- church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
- church-statechurch-state, separation, church-state separation, establishment clause, religious accommodation
- enlightenmentVoltaire, Rousseau, Locke, Kant, Montesquieu
religious tolerancereligious intolerance
Hostility toward differing faiths
religious persecution · forced conversion · sectarian violence · religious discrimination · inquisition
religious tolerancereligious fanaticism
Extreme, uncompromising spiritual conviction
religious fundamentalism · sectarianism · zealotry · triumphalism
religious tolerancetheocracy
Rule by religious authority
state religion · religious establishment · Inquisition · established church