tolerance
'Culture offered multiple references and multiple choices so that individuals could play simultaneously on several fields of commitment or engagement'. (Gregory Halon, Confession and Community in Seventeenth Century France)
'The polarised models of confessional relations lived in uneasy--perhaps contradictory--coexistence with what might even be called rampant cross-confessionalism in many areas of life and thought'.
'People probably felt the need at least to attempt to harmonise conflicting ideas, and were happiest when there was the least contradiction between religious principles and daily life'. (Anthony Milton, 'A Qualified Intolerance: The Limits and Ambiguities of Early Stuart Anti-Catholicism')
Some ideas I've encountered when studying the Catholic/Protestant existence in early modern England.