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Toleration
Author(s) -
Haefeli Evan
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
religion compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.113
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1749-8171
DOI - 10.1111/j.1749-8171.2009.00210.x
Subject(s) - toleration , ambivalence , meaning (existential) , ideal (ethics) , psychology , variety (cybernetics) , social psychology , epistemology , philosophy , political science , law , computer science , politics , artificial intelligence
Toleration has become a much discussed and studied topic in recent years, revealing a new degree of ambivalence about its meaning and significance. This essay explores how toleration is being studied and suggests the difficulties and limitations involved in approaching this dynamic topic as a stable, consistent idea. It concludes by suggesting that there is no perfect or single ideal of toleration. Rather, toleration involves a variety of relationships across time and space in which different groups benefit (or do not) in different ways. The ambivalence reflects a developing awareness of this complicated character of toleration.