This volume examines the knotty relationship between toleration and religious freedom. Spanning from the early modern period to the present day, it explores how discourses on toleration impact on current debates about religious freedom, and challenges assumptions about the associations between religious ideas and the law. Bringing together scholarship from the fields of history, law, political science, philosophy, and theology, it throws into sharp relief the disciplinary presuppositions that havesometimes misleadinglyshaped our understandings of toleration and religious freedom.

Mariëtta van der Tol is Alfred Landecker Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Blavatnik School of Government, Oxford. Carys Brown is a Junior Research Fellow in History at Trinity College, University of Cambridge. John Adenitire is a Strategic Lecturer in Law at Queen Mary, University of London. E. S. Kempson is a Lecturer and Tutor in Theology at St. Mellitus College, London.