Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-46491-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 27, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 656 g

Reihe: Jerusalem Studies in Religion and Culture

The focus of Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination is the (mostly Western) understanding, representation and self-critical appropriation of the "religious other" between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mutually constitutive processes of selfing/othering are observed through the lenses of creedal Jews, a bhakti Brahmin, a widely translated Morisco historian, a collector of Western and Eastern singularia, Christian missionaries in Asia, critical converts, toleration theorists, and freethinkers: in other words, people dwelling in an 'in-between' space which undermines any binary conception of the Self and the Other. The genesis of the volume was in exchanges between eight international scholars and the two editors, intellectual historian Giovanni Tarantino and anthropologist Paola von Wyss-Giacosa, who share an interest in comparatism, debates over toleration, and history of emotions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Tarantino, Giovanni

von Wyss-Giacosa, Paola

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Rodríguez Mediano

4 Through the Eyes of Idolatry: Pignoria’s 1615 Argument on the Conformità 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 Stünkel

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 frühen Aufklärung: Bernard Picarts Bildtafeln für die ‘Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde’ (2006).

Contributors are: Daniel Barbu, Vincent Carretta, Ananya Chakravarti, Talya Fishman, Rolando Minuti, Fernando Rodríguez Mediano, Paul Rule, Knut Martin Stünkel, Giovanni Tarantino, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa.