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About the book >.>.> No one contests the proposition that religions bring about intolerance. But the mixed record of religious traditions also encompasses teachings that lead to the tolerance of specified peoples behaviors or beliefs. Through case studies covering a wide range of the major world religions this book attempts to iden-tify the components of religious systems-beliefs practices definitions of the social order that yield attitudes of tolerance for or intolerance of other reli-gious groups. The contributors to this book frame the question of tolerance and intoler-ance as matters of public policy in the theory and practice of religious systems past and present. We inquire into how a religious system in its political state-ment produces categories of tolerance that are to be explained in that system’s logical context emphasizing cases that generate tolerance in social and politi-cal situations. Through these examinations we hope to show the importance to public policy of understanding world religions as they have been practiced in diverse places and historical periods of finding that the “infidel” or nonbeliever may be accorded an honorable position within the social order defined by Islam or Christianity or Judaism or Buddhism or Hinduism. (SP)