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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| Sprache: | eng |
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Leiden, Boston
Brill
2021
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| Schriftenreihe: | Jerusalem studies in religion and culture
volume 27 |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 304 Seiten Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9789004464919 978-90-04-46491-9 |