Through your eyes: religious alterity and the early modern Western imagination

"The focus of Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imaginations is the (mostly Western) understanding, representation and self-critical appropriation of the "religious other" between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Mutually constitutive processes...

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Published in:Jerusalem studies in religion and culture
Contributors: Tarantino, Giovanni 1972- (Editor) ; Wyss-Giacosa, Paola von 1970- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2021]
In: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture (volume 27)
Series/Journal:Jerusalem studies in religion and culture volume 27
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B The Other / Religious pluralism / History 1500-1800
Further subjects:B Conference program 2011 (Bochum)
B Collection of essays
B Religions Relations
B Other (Philosophy) Religious aspects
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:"The focus of Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imaginations 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"--
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:9004464913