From Labelling and Ridicule to Understanding: The Novelty of Bernard and Picartâs Religious Comparatism

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Chapter 9 From Labelling and Ridicule to Understanding: The Novelty of Bernard and Picartâs Religious Comparatism

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

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During the European Enlightenment, an over-contrived emphasis on priestly analogies between different religious traditions might have set the scene for religious indifferentism or, indeed, for powerful rhetorics of intolerance. For example, Thomas Gordonâs gambit, an attempt to use satirically mediating religious prophesies to profane salvation and promote tolerance, backfired. His language of stereotyping and caricature, so immediate for an illiterate public, finally resulted in a demonization of the Jews. In contrast, the illustrated volumes of the CÃ©rÃ©monies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (translated into English by Voltaireâs accomplished translator John Lockman) highlight the culturally specific differences between various religious traditions and, for the most part, depict them respectfully. In this way, the reductive oversimplifications capable of fostering caricature as an expression of intolerance are vividly checked and countered.

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

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