Religious Tolerance: A History

• Arvind Sharma explores Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto, identifying historical examples of tolerance and examining their relevance to the modern world.

• Arvind Sharma is a scholar of comparative religion and Indology. He is the Birks Professor of Comparative Religion at McGill University and has previously taught in Australia and the United States. He has written extensively on comparative religion and Indian traditions.

The book investigates whether religious tolerance can be strengthened by finding principles of tolerance within different religious traditions themselves. It uses historical evidence from ten major religions to examine how tolerance has appeared across different societies and periods