Conscience and Community: Religious Tolerance & Dissent in Early Modern England & America - Historical Study for Scholars & Book Clubs" （注：原标题已是英文学术著作标题，主要优化点： 1. 用&符号替代"and"更符合搜索习惯 2. 拼写修正"dissent" 3. 增加关键词"historical study" 4. 添加使用场景说明适合学者和读书会）

Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical emergence of religious liberty in the Anglo-American tradition, looking deeper than the traditional emergence of toleration to find not a series of self-evident or logically connected expansions but instead a far more complex evolution. Murphy argues that contemporary liberal theorists have misunderstood and misconstrued the actual historical development of toleration in theory and practice. Murphy approaches the concept through three "myths" about religious toleration: that it was opposed only by ignorant, narrow-minded persecutors; that it was achieved by skeptical Enlightenment rationalists; and that tolerationist arguments generalize easily from religion to issues such as gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality, providing a basis for identity politics.