Four Treatises Concerning The Doctrine Discipline And Worship Of The Mahometans Viz I An Abridgment Of The Mahometan Religion Translated By H Reland Ii A Defence Of The Mahometans By H Reland Iii A Treatise Of Bobovius Concerning The Liturgy Of The Turks Translated From The Latin Iv Reflections On Mahometanism And Socinianism Translated From The French To Which Is Prefixd The Life And Actions Of Mahomet

Author : Lynn Hunt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674049284
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book The Book That Changed Europe written by Lynn Hunt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two French Protestant refugees in eighteenth-century Amsterdam gave the world an extraordinary work that intrigued and outraged readers across Europe. In this captivating account, Lynn Hunt, Margaret Jacob, and Wijnand Mijnhardt take us to the vibrant Dutch Republic and its flourishing book trade to explore the work that sowed the radical idea that religions could be considered on equal terms. Famed engraver Bernard Picart and author and publisher Jean Frederic Bernard produced The Religious Ceremonies and Customs of All the Peoples of the World, which appeared in the first of seven folio volumes in 1723. They put religion in comparative perspective, offering images and analysis of Jews, Catholics, Muslims, the peoples of the Orient and the Americas, Protestants, deists, freemasons, and assorted sects. Despite condemnation by the Catholic Church, the work was a resounding success. For the next century it was copied or adapted, but without the context of its original radicalism and its debt to clandestine literature, English deists, and the philosophy of Spinoza. Ceremonies and Customs prepared the ground for religious toleration amid seemingly unending religious conflict, and demonstrated the impact of the global on Western consciousness. In this beautifully illustrated book, Hunt, Jacob, and Mijnhardt cast new light on the profound insight found in one book as it shaped the development of a modern, secular understanding of religion.