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The book that changed Europe : Picart and Bernard's Religious ceremonies of the world /

Main Author: HuntLynn 1945-
Other Authors: Jacob, Margaret C., Mijnhardt, W. W.,
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Picart, Bernard, > 1673-1733.
Bernard, Jean FreÌ䥻u00CC}⩣, > -1752.
Religions > Early works to 1800
Rites and ceremonies > Early works to 1800.
Table of Contents:
  • A marketplace for religious ideas
  • Bernard Picart: religious and artistic journeys
  • Why Holland?
  • Jean Frederic Bernard: the tumultuous life of a refugee
  • Publisher
  • A writer's mental universe
  • Picart's visual politics
  • Familiarizing Judaism
  • Cutting Roman Catholicism down to size
  • Idolatry: West and East
  • Rehabilitating Islam
  • Dissent, deism, and atheism.

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