- Title
- Toleration, skepticism, and blasphemy: John Locke, Jonas Proast, and Charlie Hebdo
- Creator
- Tate, John William
- Relation
- American Journal of Political Science Vol. 60, Issue 3, p. 664-675
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ajps.12245
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- As the recent Charlie Hebdo, Copenhagen café, and Garland, Texas, shootings show, religion has recently reemerged as a source of violence within liberal democracies, particularly in those instances where cases of alleged blasphemy are involved. Although toleration arose, within the liberal tradition, as a means of dealing with such conflict, some individuals, possessed of devout religious belief, when confronted with beliefs or practices profoundly at odds with their faith, cannot conceive of toleration as a possibility. In such situations, the demand that these individuals tolerate that to which their faith is at odds is likely to run up against a more personal and, for its adherents, eternal agenda. This article considers a way in which those with devout religious beliefs might tolerate that which is profoundly at odds with their faith, thereby providing a means to avoid violent outcomes such as those in the "extreme cases" above.
- Subject
- Charlie Hebdo; religion; violence; liberal democracies; blasphemy; toleration; skepticism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1322696
- Identifier
- uon:24632
- Identifier
- ISSN:0092-5853
- Language
- eng
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