Introduction.- Part I. Thinking Toleration Within Religious Traditions.- Chapter 1 Introduction to Section One: Toleration within Religious Traditions.- Chapter 2 Tolerance and Intolerance in the Hebrew Bible.- Chapter 3 Charitable Jewish Assessments of the Other: 8th-18th Centuries.- Chapter 4 Hasidism.- Chapter 5 Tolerance and Rights: An Exploration of Medieval Canon Law.- Chapter 6 Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Toleration.- Chapter 7 Tolerance in Islamic Thought and Praxis.- Chapter 8 On Pluralism in the Qur'an and Islamic Philosophy.- Chapter 8 The Quran's Address to the Israelites Q. 2:122-152: A New Translation.- Chapter 9 Religious Toleration in Medieval Islamic Thought and Society.- Chapter 10 The Universality of Universal Peace: Central Asian Qalandars and ?ul?-i Kull.- Chapter 11 Religious Minorities Rights in Shiite Islam: A Shift from Institutional Discrimination to Absolute Equality.- Chapter 12 May No One Obstruct Them: Tibetan Buddhist Toleration for 18th-Century Capuchin Missionaries in Lhasa.- Chapter 13 A Play on Religious Tolerance in Early India.- Chapter 14 Ingredients of Toleration in Jain Philosophy.- Chapter 15 Beyond Toleration? Syncretism, Amalgamation, and Religious Multiplicity in the Shinto Tradition.- Part II Toleration and the State: Minority, Law and Politics.- Chapter 16 Introduction to Section Two: Toleration and the State: Minority, Law, Politics.- Chapter 17 Asoka's Dhamma: Social Toleration or Communal Harmony.- Chapter 18 Late Roman Toleration? or How to Read an Imperial Edict: Theodosius to All the People on the Catholic Religion.- Chapter 19 Integration or Intolerance? Muslim-Jewish Convergence in the Zirid Kingdom of Granada.- Chapter 20 Two Texts on Toleration from Pre-1500 AD West Africa.- Chapter 21 Half-Toleration: Concordia and the Limits of Dialogue.- Chapter 22 Toleration and the Civil Magistrate in Early Modern Europe, 1517-1598.- Chapter 23 Regarding Toleration and Liberalism: Considerations from the Anglo-Jewish Experience.- Chapter 24 Tolerance and Religious Freedom in Early America.- Chapter 25 Toleration in the Ottoman Empire.- Chapter 26 The Way has not a Constant Name. State Attitudes to Religious Toleration in Chinese History.- Chapter 27 Akbar's Mahabharata: An Indian Epic for the Mughal Emperor.- Chapter 28 Religious Minorities-States Relations in Modern Iran from Safavid Era to the Islamic Republic: Policies and Implications.- Chapter 29 Tolerance and Intolerance in Mexico.- Chapter 30 Post-1998 Indonesia: Ambiguous Stances Towards Toleration Amidst Growing Islamist Majoritarianism.- Part III Toleration and Sacred Space.- Chapter 31 Introduction to Section Three: Toleration & Sacred Spaces.- Chapter 32 Of Roman Bath-Houses, Mosques and Churches: Rabbinic-Jewish Approaches to Religious Spaces of Others.- Chapter 33 The Temple of Parfait Tolerance: an Island of Truce between Conflicting Worlds 13th- 18th Centuries.- Chapter 34 Accommodating Difference and Validating Diversity in Early Modern Europe.- Chapter 35 Toleration as Multiple Construction in the Post-Communist Realm: Dervish Luzha's Tomb in Northern Albania.- Chapter 36 Building Faith and Identity in a Community Bound by History: The Nauroz Festival in Afghanistan.- Part IV Toleration Today: Conflicting Narratives, Competing Rights and New Frontiers of Dialogue.- Chapter 37 Introduction to Section Four: Toleration Today: Conflicting Narratives, Competing Rights, and New Frontiers of Dialogue.- Chapter 38 Religious Toleration and the Enlightenment.- Chapter 39 Tolerance Revisited.- Chapter 40 The Elusive Toleration of Islam in Europe.- Chapter 41 Toleration at the Nexus between Religious Freedom, Pluralism and Democracy: A Focus on the European Court of Human Rights.- Chapter 42 The Concept of Ubuntu in Contemporary Thought.- Chapter 43 Paradoxical Abraham: An Essay on Inter-Monotheistic Hospitality, Dialogue, and Hostility.