How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West:

Perez Zagorin

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Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent
manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth
century, Christianity was perhaps the most intolerant of all the great
world religions. How Christian Europe and the West went from this extreme
to their present universal belief in religious toleration is the momentous
story fully told for the first time in this timely and important book by a
leading historian of early modern Europe.