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Author:   Giovanni Tarantino ,  Paola von Wyss-Giacosa
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   27
Weight:   0.656kg
ISBN:  

9789004464919

ISBN 10:   9004464913
Pages:   306
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements List of Figures Notes on Contributors Introduction: The Religious Other through Early Modern Eyes Giovanni Tarantino and Paola von Wyss-Giacosa 1 Confessionalisation in Jewish Culture? Creedal Moments from the Middle Ages through the Late Eighteenth Century Talya Fishman 2 Silencing the Other: Eknath's Hindu-Turk Samvad and Thomas Stephens' Discurso sobre a vinda de Jesu Christo Ananya Chakravarti 3 Seeing Oneself through the Eyes of a Morisco: The European Translations of Miguel de Luna's Historia verdadera del Rey d. Rodrigo Fernando Rodriguez Mediano 4 Through the Eyes of Idolatry: Pignoria's 1615 Argument on the Conformita of Idols from the West and East Indies with Egyptian Gods Paola von Wyss-Giacosa 5 The Religious Other as Perceived by the Chinese and by Early Western Missionaries Paul A. Rule 6 Radical Attitudes towards the Religions of Siam in Early Eighteenth-Century French Thought Rolando Minuti 7 What Is Left of Religion after Christianity Unveiled? D'Holbach's Perspectives Knut Martin Stunkel 8 Through African Eyes: Eighteenth-Century Black Atlantic Authors Confront Christianity Vincent Carretta 9 From Labelling and Ridicule to Understanding: The Novelty of Bernard and Picart's Religious Comparatism Giovanni Tarantino Afterword: Cannibalism and History Daniel Barbu Index

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Giovanni Tarantino, University of Florence, is the Chair of the COST Action 'People in Motion: Entangled Histories of Displacement across the Mediterranean (1492-1923)' and co-editor of the journals Cromohs and Emotions: History, Culture, Society. Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, researcher and guest curator at the Ethnographic Museum, University of Zurich, is author of Religionsbilder der fruhen Aufklarung: Bernard Picarts Bildtafeln fur die 'Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde' (2006). Contributors are: Daniel Barbu, Vincent Carretta, Ananya Chakravarti, Talya Fishman, Rolando Minuti, Fernando Rodriguez Mediano, Paul Rule, Knut Martin Stunkel, Giovanni Tarantino, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa.

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