In episode 11 we continue to survey the wreckage after hurricane Luther was unleashed on Europe with the Reformation. When the Reformation mutated and spread across the continent a burning question arose: Can people of different faiths live together in the same state? Should social peace be based on tolerance or intolerance? We look into questions such as

• How did other Protestant reformers like Calvin and Zwingli react to religious dissent?
• In what manner did English and continental censorship laws differ?
• How did the Catholic Church react to the Reformation?
• Which states were the first state to formalize religious tolerance?
• How did the scientific and philosophical ideas of Galileo and Giordano Bruno conflict with the religious monopoly on truth and what were the repercussions?

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