Through Your Eyes
Author | : Giovanni Tarantino |
Publisher | : Jerusalem Studies in Religion |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021 |
ISBN-10 | : 9004464913 |
ISBN-13 | : 9789004464919 |
Rating | : 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Download or read book Through Your Eyes written by Giovanni Tarantino and published by Jerusalem Studies in Religion. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.