Liberal tolerance of religion extends only to religions accepting liberal discursive assumptions

Evidence

For when it is proposed that religion can play a positive political role in modern society, it is not intended that this apply to any religion whatever, but only to those religions that are able and willing to enter the public sphere for the purpose of rational debate with opponents who are to be persuaded rather than coerced. Only religions that have accepted the assumptions of liberal discourse are being commended, in which tolerance is sought on the basis of a distinctive relation between law and morality. — Talal Asad, Formations of the Secular, 893

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in how seemingly neutral liberal categories do boundary-work — parallels recent work on secularism’s Protestant genealogy (e.g., Talal Asad’s own wider project). — connects to: Early liberal revivalists deliberately excluded nonliberals to preserve doctrinal coherence — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion: Reinventing Free…, 194; Neoliberalism has pursued ongoing intellectual accommodation with religious conservatives despite deep contradictions. — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 184; Liberal tolerance of reformed Islam coexists with nativist demands to end Islam itself — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 303 (+2 more)