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Defining Documents in World History: Religious Freedom & Religious Persecution

Table of Contents

Volume 1



Publisher’s Note


Editor’s Introduction


Contributors


Full Table of Contents


The Middle East


The Revolt of the Maccabees and Judean Independence


Seeking Advice from Emperor Trajan Regarding the Christians


Novella 146: On Jews


The Pact of Umar: Peace Accord to the Christians of Syria


Ibn Abd-el-Hakem on the Muslim Conquest of Andalus


Excerpt from “The Capture of Jerusalem”


Edict of Gülhane


Theodor Herzl: The Jewish State


Report on Armenian Genocide


Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel


The Anfal Campaign against the Kurds: The Ali Hassan Al-Majid Tapes


Islamic State: Proclamation of the Caliphate


Asia


The Doctrine of the Mean, Section 2


Excerpts from the Dao De Jing


The Edicts of King Ashoka


The Laws of Manu, Chapter 1


Kangxi Emperor: Edict of Toleration


Jawaharlal Nehru: Speech on the Occasion of Indian Independence


Constitution of Tibet


Xinhua Commentary Calls for Long-Term Fight against Falun Gong


UN Official Cites Horrific Crimes Against Rohingya


Report on International Religious Freedom: China—Xinjiang


Europe


Edict of Milan


The Crusaders in Mainz, 1096


Surrender Treaty of the Kingdom of Granada


Alhambra Decree


Requerimiento


Ninety-five Theses


Edict of Worms


Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent


Article V of the Warsaw Convention of 1573


Treaty of Westphalia


John Bunyan: The Pilgrim’s Progress


Edict of Fontainebleau


A Letter Concerning Toleration


Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen


J’Accuse…!


Dignitatus Humanae: Declaration on Religious Freedom


French Law on Conspicuous Religious Symbols in Schools


The Holocaust


Letter Regarding the Plight of German Jews


Cable from London to Rabbi Stephen Wise Regarding the Final Solution


Telegram Confirming Reports of Mass Executions of Jews in Poland


International Conference on Military Trials: Agreement and Charter


President’s Commission on the Holocaust


Volume 2



Modern International


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights


International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights


Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities


United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples


America


Excerpts from the Massachusetts Bay Colony Trial against Anne Hutchinson


Roger Williams: The Bloudy Tenent of Persecution


Cecil Calvert: Maryland Toleration Act


Frame of Government of Pennsylvania


Memorial and Remonstrance Against Religious Assessments


Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom


First Draft of First Amendment Rights


Thomas Jefferson’s Letter to the Danbury Baptists


Spiritual Freedom


Petition to the US Congress Regarding the Great Influx of Roman Catholics


“What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?”


Platform of the American Party


Mormon Disavowal of Plural Marriage


Louis D. Brandeis: “The Jewish Problem: How to Solve It”


Cantwell v. Connecticut


Minersville School District v. Gobitis


West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette


Everson v. Board of Education


Engel v. Vitale


Lemon v. Kurtzman


American Indian Religious Freedom Act


“Organizing the Moral Majority”


Lynch v. Donnelly


Inside the Rajneeshee Secret Files


Employment Division v. Smith


Church of the Lukumi-Babalu Aye v. Hialeah


Agostini v. Felton


City of Boerne v. Flores


Ten Commandments Cases


Donald Trump’s Call for a “Muslim Ban”


Pope Francis Homily with Representatives of the Indigenous Communities, Chiapas, Mexico


Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission


Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn, New York v. Andrew M. Cuomo, Governor of New York


South Bay United Pentecostal Church v. Gavin Newsom, Governor of California


Kennedy v. Bremerton School District


Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography