Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom David A. Norris and experience peace through the

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when the outcasts of European society formed a democracy of buccaneers

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a blend of primitive magic and Catholicism now practiced by an estimated five million Americans

Persecution and Toleration: The Long Road to Religious Freedom David A. Norris and experience peace through theReligious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an absolute value, something beyond question. Yet how it emerged, and why, remains widely misunderstood. Tracing the history of religious persecution from the Fall of Rome to the present day, Noel D. Johnson and Mark Koyama provide a novel explanation of the birth of religious