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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 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 Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād 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
