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...
| Altri autori: | ; |
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| Tipo di documento: | Stampa Libro |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
| Servizio "Subito": | Ordinare ora. |
| Verificare la disponibilità: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Pubblicazione: |
Leiden Boston
Brill
[2021]
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| In: |
Jerusalem studies in religion and culture (volume 27)
Anno: 2021 |
| Periodico/Rivista: | Jerusalem studies in religion and culture
volume 27 |
| (sequenze di) soggetti normati: | B
L'altro
/ Pluralismo religioso
/ Storia 1500-1800
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| Altre parole chiave: | B
Religions
Relations
B Atti del convengo 2011 (Bochum) B Raccolta di saggi B Other (Philosophy) Religious aspects |
| Edizione parallela: | Elettronico
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| Riepilogo: | "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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| Descrizione del documento: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Descrizione fisica: | XIII, 304 Seiten, Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-46491-9 |
