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Article: Divided By Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- March 1, 2009
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Divided By Faith: Religious Conflict and the Practice of Toleration in Early Modern Europe. By Benjamin J. Kaplan. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007. xiv + 418 pp. $29.95 cloth.
The image of early modern Europe as plagued by religious persecution and confessional violence is familiar. In recent years, however, historians have begun to paint a more complex picture in which people of different faiths found ways to live together. In Divided by Faith, Benjamin J. Kaplan draws on their work to provide an overview and an important new analysis of how Europeans constructed religious pluralism. The book makes use of examples ranging from ...