Introduction: Intolerance, Power, and Epistemology

In , the Knights’ Revolt kicked off the Wars of Religion. Half a millennium later, intolerance is rife, and important questions about it have yet to be answered. It is a pleasure to be able to introduce a symposium that addresses some of these questions, although of course it does not fully resolve them. After briefly summarizing the contributions made here by our six symposiasts, I will step back and use the conceptual and historical resources of the papers by Arash Abizadeh, Warren Breckman, Shterna Friedman, Jan-Werner Müller, and Rogers M. Smith to discuss the longest and most controversial article, by Aaron Preston.