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![]() By contrast, more radical forms of tolerance existed among underground millenarians and ecumenical societies of this period. It shows how the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 sparked a tolerationist spur in Protestant countries, ‘refuges’ that often offered only a limited level of freedom. ![]() Drawing from rare manuscript sources scattered over several countries, it argues that tolerance was a grassroots Christian belief primarily promoted by those who needed it the most: persecuted radical dissenters. This article considers tolerance not as an idea, but as a religious belief and a practice in the early Enlightenment. Tolerance, in other words, was a practice long before it became a theory. This assumption, however, is flawed as it tends to downplay centuries of religious pluralism and cohabitation. ![]() Freedom of religion generally resonates in the collective mind as a prized legacy of the European Enlightenment alongside most individual liberties and modern values. ![]()
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