Religious toleration? No way!

A century and a half of religious polarisation, segregation and war after the Reformation. Why it was impossible to reach an agreement: about tolerance as a crime and the role of the devil.

The Swiss psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross became famous in 1969 with her five stages of grief and loss: successively denial, anger, negotiating/fighting, depression, and finally acceptance. Empirical research later nuanced this well-known theory, but it is still pretty much established that emotional reactions often play a role in grief and loss. (Bu…