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

Through Your Eyes: Religious Alterity and the Early Modern Western Imagination
ISBN-10
9004464913
ISBN-13
9789004464919
Series
Through Your Eyes
Category
Religion
Language
English
Published
2021
Publisher
Jerusalem Studies in Religion
Authors
Giovanni Tarantino, Paola von Wyss-Giacosa

Description

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.

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