Index
Page numbers in italic refer to illustrations.
‘L’abbé et le rabbin’ (d’Holbach)
207
Abelard, Peter
31
Abençufian, Aly
72
Abentarique, Abulcacim Tarif
71, 72
Aboab, Immanuel
31–32
abolitionism/abolitionists see Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah; Equiano, Olaudah; slavery/enslavement; Wheatley, Phillis
Abraham ben David of Posquières (Rabad III)
27
Abravanel, Isaac
26n24, 34n57
accommodation/accommodatio
46–47, 107, 128, 134, 150, 259
Discurso sobre a vinda de Jesu Christo; Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād
Acheloos
122
African authors
in general
215
Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah
223–225
Equiano, Olaudah
227–231
Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw
216–218
Quaque, Philip
218–220
Sancho, Ignatius
226–227
Smith, Venture
220–223
Wheatley, Phillis
223, 225–226
African peoples
Cérémonies on
257
Judaism and
229–231, 257
religions of
African authors
Equiano on
227
Gronniosaw on
221
Quaque on
218–220
Sancho on
227
Agricoletti, Francesco
85
‘Al Tehi ka-Avotekha (Be Not Like Your Fathers; Profet Duran)
28–29
Albo, Joseph
26
Alcorano di Macometto (Castrodardo)
90
Alcune riflessioni intorno alle cose presenti della Cina (attr. Ceva)
258–259
Aleandro, Girolamo
104, 125–126, 129–133, 135, 137–138
Aleni, Giulio
153, 155–156, 160–161n50
Alguazir, Muhammad
68
Almansor, the Learned and Victorious King that conquered Spaine, his Life and Death (Ashley)
88–90
Almanzor, Jacob (al-Mansur)
in Almanzor, or, The Conquest of Granada
93
in A Collection of State Tracts
95–96
in Historia verdadera del rey d. Rodrigo
in general
72, 74
in English translations
88–89
in English versions
92
in French translations of
75–77
in Italian versions of
86, 87, 88
Almanzor, or, The Conquest of Granada (Dryden)
93
Alpujarras Rebellion (1568–1570)
67, 70, 71
alterity see others/otherness/othering
Álvares-Corream, Diogo (Caramuru)
276
Amadís de Gaula ( Rodríguez de Montalvo)
78
Amaltheia
122
Amerindian peoples
encounters with Europeans
272–284
religions of
in Brazil
274, 276–277, 278, 279–282
in Mexico
116–124, 117, 255, 256n53
Amida
126–127
Amsterdam
22, 39n74
Amulio, Cardinal (Da Mula, Marco Antonio)
119
‘An Analogy between Ancient Heathenism and Modern Priestcraft’ (Trenchard)
253
Anabaptists
19, 34n56
Analects (Lunyu; Confucius)
155
angels
60
Anglicanism
14, 218
animals
62, 282–284
anonymity, of author of Christianity Unveiled
192–193, 194–195, 197, 198
anthropology
1, 270–272, 283
anthropophagy
257, 273–275, 277
antigrammar
1n2
Anti-Narcissus (de Castro; never written)
270–272
antiquaries
in general
104
discourse on idolatry of see idolatry
anti-Spanish ideology
91–92
anti-Trinitarians
33
aphorisms
91
Apollo (Phoebus)
126
Apologetica Historia (Las Casas)
280
Apología contra la ley cristiana (Alguazir)
68
Aquinas, Thomas
164
Aranha, Francisco
52
Argens, Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’
8, 183–187
Arhats
130, 132, 133
Arias Montanus, Benedictus
111
Arrivabene, Andrea
90
Ascher, Saul
38
Ashley, Robert
88–90
Asian gods/deities
126–135, 147
Assad, Talal
278
assimilation
5–6
Assyrian Christians
151
astral cults
108, 109
Astronomical Bureau
159
atheism
in general
176, 180–181
d’Holbach on
197, 199, 202–203
Auffarth, Christoph
10
Augustine of Hippo
46, 149
Avalokitesvara
133
Ávalos, Diego d’, Marquis of Vasto
85, 86
Baeck, Elias
242n20, 243
Barberini, Francesco
104
Barbu, Daniel
x, 4, 9–10, 267–284
Barron, Richard
241n18
Bartoli, Daniello
160–161n50
basic humanity
148
Basnage, Jacob Christian
251
Batnitzky, Leora
38n70
Baumann, Gerd
1–3, 267
Bayle, Pierre
14, 175–179, 180–181, 183
Bear, Ephraim ben
244
Beaurepaire, Pierre-Yves
15
Bejarano, Diego (al-Hajari, Ahmad b. Qasim)
68
Bellamy, Daniel (the Elder)
246n26
Bellarmine, Robert
150, 164
Bembo, Pietro
104
ben Israel, Menasseh
36
ben Mordecai, Abraham
244
Bendre, V. S.
48
Bernard, Jean-Frédéric
6, 179–183, 211, 237
Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
Berno, Petro
52
Berwick, James Fitz-James, Duke of
94
Beurrier, Paul
164
Bhāgavata Purāṇa
47–48
Bhaktalīlāmṛta (Mahipati)
48
bhakti formula
64
bhāruḍs (drama-poems)
48, 49
Bhāvārtha Rāmāyaṇa
47–48
bhūtas
58, 60
devchārs
Bible
Book of Revelation
216–217, 219, 231
customs in
256
direct exposure to
216
Exodus
225, 228
New Testament
36n59
Pentateuch
232
slavery in
228–229
vocalization of Hebrew text of
80
Bickerstaff, Isaac (Swift, Jonathan)
240
Bijāpur
51
Black Legend
92, 97
Bleda, Jaime
72
Bodhisattva
133
Bodian, Miriam
29
Book of Nature
216–217
Book of Reason
219
Book of Revelation
216–217, 219, 231
Bossuet, Jacques Bénigne
78, 95
Boulainvilliers, Henri
196
Boulanger, Nicolas
196, 198, 200n40
Bourges, Jacques de
172, 174
Bowles, John
242n20, 244, 244
Brahmin Christians
53–55
Brazil
272–282
Brignole Sale, Antongiulio
85
Bruzen de la Martinière, Antoine Augustine
251
Bry, Theodor de
113–115, 113, 114, 116
Buck, Pearl S.
164
Buddha’s disciples
130, 132, 133
Bull, Simon ben
244
Burke, Peter
2, 106–107
Burlington, Richard Boyle, Earl of
246n26
Burn, Robert
268
Buxtorf, Johannes (the Elder)
32, 251
Caillois, Roger
269
Calafat, Guillaume
254
Callot, Jacques
242
Il Callotto resuscitato (Engelbrecht)
242n20, 242n21
Campbell, Alexander
224
Cānd Bodhle
48
Cannibal Metaphysics (de Castro)
270–272
cannibalism
9, 257, 273–275, 277
Cape Coast Castle (Ghana)
218–219
Cappel, Louis
80
Caro, Rodrigo
72
Carretta, Vincent
x, 8–9, 215–232, 269
Cartari, Vincenzo
105, 107–108
Casas, Bartolomé de las
280
casteism
62
Castro, Eduardo Viveiros de
270–272, 274, 283
Castro, Pedro de
69
Castrodardo, Giovanni Battista
90
Catholic Church see Roman Catholic Church/Catholics
Catholic Relief Act (1778)
13
Catholics see Roman Catholic Church/Catholics
Cato’s Letters (Trenchard & Gordon)
238
Cavazzi da Montecuccolo, Giovanni Antonio
258
ceremonies
in general
253–254
in Catholic Church
251, 252–253
in China and Siam
180–182, 258–259
in Judaism
250–252
in Mexican religions
249n34, 252
Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (Bernard & Picart)
in general
6, 183, 211, 237, 279
adaptation by Catholic Church of
186–187
on African peoples
257
on ceremonies
in general
253–254
in Catholic Church
251, 252–253
in China and Siam
180–182, 258–259
in Judaism
250–252
in Mexican religions
249n34, 252
on Collegiants
260
conformity in
249–250
English translation of
245–246
inclusive stance of
260–261
on the Inquisition
254
on Judaism
250–251
metempsychosis doctrine in
249n33
order of publication of
255, 256nn55–56
radicalism of
179–182
religious commonalities in
255–260
whiteness as standard in
257–258n58, 258n60
Cervantes, Miguel de
70–71
Ceva, Tommaso
259
Chakrabarty, Dipesh
235
Chakravarti, Ananya
x, 6, 7, 45–64, 278
Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
89, 90
Chatterjee, Kumkum
10n19
Chaumont, Alexandre de
172
Chimalman
120, 121
China
Christian communities in, literature of
153–154
converts to Christianity in
151, 156–163
Confucian Christians
cultural otherness in
147–148
Dominican order in
151–152
Franciscan order in
151–152
gods/deities in
147
Asian gods/deities
as ideal society
165
influence of, on missionaries
163–165
Jesuit order in
148–150, 152–153, 154–155
language in
152–154
missionary literature on
258–259
racial otherness in
146–147
religious otherness in
145–146
religious tolerance in
175
Chinese peoples
China and the Christian Impact (Gernet)
152–153, 154–155
Chinese gods/deities
147
Chinese language
152–154
Chinese peoples
146, 259
chivalric literature
78, 83
Choisy, François-Timoléon de
172
Chrétiens sans Église (Kołakowski)
11, 33
Le Christianisme dévoilé (Boulanger)
196
Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou examination des principes et des effets de la religion chrétienne (Christianity Unveiled; d’Holbach)
in general
191–192
anonymity of author of
192–193, 194–195, 197, 198
definition of religion in
204
lack of literary style in
195
reception of
197–198
views on Christianity in
in general
198–199, 210–211
history of
200–201
morality and
201–203, 211–212
vs. other religions
204–208
views on other religions in
204–208
Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’
Christianity Unveiled (d’Holbach) see Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou examination des principes et des effets de la religion chrétienne
Christianity/Christians
cannibalism and
274
confessionalisation in
21
Confucianism and
150–151
converts to see Confucian Christians; conversos; converts/conversions; Moriscos
degeneration theory of
120, 134–135
Eastern Syriac
151
d’Holbach’s views on see Le Christianism dévoilé
Jewish campaigns to judaise
35
Jewish thought on
23–24, 33–36, 270
morality in
161
religious intolerance of
175
slavery/enslavement and see slavery/enslavement
Bible; Protestant Church/Protestants; Roman Catholic Church/Catholics
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
280, 281
Cionacci, Francesco (Cirfranci, Sennuccio)
87–88
circumcision
230–231
Cirfranci, Sennuccio (Cionacci, Francesco)
87–88
Citlallatonac
120
civic emancipation, Judaism and
38–39
civility
14
Clarkson, Thomas
228
classifications
of Historia verdadera del rey d. Rodrigo
78, 80–81, 83–84, 88
of histories
78–79
Clastres, Helène
279
Cochin, Charles-Nicolas (the Younger)
6
Codex Ríos (Vaticanus
3738) 119
coins
122, 123
A Collection of State Tracts (Savile)
95–96
Collegiants
260
Collins, Anthony
196, 239n9, 240
communication
203–204
Concina, Daniello
2
confessionalisation
19–39
Conformité des cérémonies modernes avec les anciennes (Mussard)
253
Conformité des Coutumes des Indiens Orientaux avec celles des Juifs et des autres Peuples de l’Antiquité (de la Créquinière)
235–236, 255, 256
Conformité des coutumes des Nègres de la Guinée avec celles des Juifs (Du Fresne de Francheville)
257n57
conformity (conformità/conformité)
106, 112, 124, 128, 134, 136, 138, 235–237, 249–250
Confucian Christians
Jesuit influence on
156–163
literature of
in general
153–154, 156–157
Li, Jiugong
157–158, 160–163
Li, Xiyan
159–160
Liu, Yunde
159
prejudices against
162
Confucianism
Christianity and
150–151
Confucian Christians
on divinity
278–279
d’Holbach on
205–206
morality in
161
Ricci on
148–149, 155
Taiji in
155–156
Tian in
155, 159–160
views on human nature in
155
Congo
258
connected histories
270
Constantine follis
122, 123
Contemoque
120
Conti, Natale
107
The Conversion of Missionaries: Liberalism in American Protestant Missions in China, 1907–1932 (Lian)
163–165
conversos
belief and Jewish identity of
27–32
Christian reform and
34–35n57
confessionalisation and
20–22
creed formulations by
21, 22, 25–27, 29–31
Jewish campaigns to re-judaise
31–32, 34
converts/conversions
in general
12–13
to Christianity
in China
151, 156–163
Confucian Christians
in Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād
62
in India
51–52
in Spain see conversos; Moriscos
Gernet’s views on
154–155
to Islam
50
Corner, Marco
104
Correspondance littéraire (periodical)
207
Correspondance philosophique (d’Argens)
183, 186–187
Costa, Uriel da
22
coterie Boulainvilliers
196
coterie holbachique
192–193
Council of the Four Lands
20n5
Couplet, Philippe
175
creeds
formulation of
by conversos
21, 22, 25–27, 29–31
by Jewish leaders
21, 22, 24–27
in Medieval Jewish thought
23–27
use of term
23
Crescas, Hasdai
26
criticism
on Historia verdadera del rey d. Rodrigo
74, 97
on Jesuit order
152–153, 154–155
on Ricci
155, 156
cross, symbol of
122
crypto-Jews see conversos
Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah (Stuart/Stewart, John)
215, 223–225, 227, 228
cuius regio eius religio policy
36–37
cultural otherness, in China
147–148
culture (wen)
149
Cybele
122
Da Mula, Marco Antonio (Amulio, Cardinal)
119
Dapper, Olfert
252n42
dat/datot (laws)
23
Dattātreya
48
Davide perseguitato (Malvezzi)
90–91
De Deis Gentium (Giraldi)
107
De la vicissitude ou variété des choses en l’univers (Le Roy)
89–90
‘De l’origine des romans’ (Huet)
78, 81
De Servis (Pignoria)
105
the Deccan
46–50
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (1789; France)
38
Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions (1965)
45–46
degeneration theory
107, 120, 134–135, 137, 255n52
deism
175, 182, 183, 196, 236
deities see gods/deities
Della religione rivelata, contra gli ateisti, deisti, materialisti, indifferentisti, che negano la verità de’ misteri (Concina)
2
Dellon, Charles
254
Des Maizeaux, Pierre
173
Descartes, René
241
Devar Shmuel (Aboab)
32
devchārs
57–60
Dhere, R. C.
48
Dialogismo y lacónico discurso en defensa de las reliquias de San Cecilio que se hallaron en la Iglesia mayor de la ciudad de Granada (de Faría)
70
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal
78
Dictionnaire historique et critique (Bayle)
176
Diderot, Denis
192
Dirre, Paul Heinrich see Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’
A Discourse on the Grounds and Reasons of the Christian Religion (Collins)
196
Discurso sobre a vinda de Jesu Christo (Discourse on the Coming of Jesus Christ; Stephens)
in general
47
Brahmin audience of
53–54
dedication of
52, 54
dialogical form of
53, 54
on Hindu idolatry
57–60
native collaborators on
52
silencing the other in
60–62, 64
‘Dissertation sur la verité de cette Histoire, conferée avec celle d’Espagne, & quelques Manuscrits Arabes, Turcs & Persans, pour y servir de preface & de preuves’ (Le Roux)
79, 80, 83, 94
diversions, imaginative
241
divinity
Confucianism on
278–279
idea of
176, 280
royal authority and
184
in Tupinamba religion
281–282
Doctrina phísica y moral de príncipes (Gurmendi)
97
Dohm, Christian Wilhelm von
37n66
Dominican order
151–152
Doutrina
53
drama-poems (bhāruḍs)
48, 49
Dryden, John
93
Du Bosc, Claude
245–246
Du Choul, Guillaume
253
Du Fresne de Francheville, Joseph
257n57
Du Pin, Louis-Ellies
254
Du Puy, Christophe
124
Du Rondel, Jacques
176
Dumarsais, César
196
Dumont, Louis
1
Duran, Profet
28–29
Duran, Shimon ben Zemah (Rashbatz)
26–27, 30
dwarves
242, 243
‘Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe’ (seminar)
1, 10
East, use of term
5n14
Eastern Syriac Christians
151
Edict of Nantes (1598)
37n64
education, royal
75–78, 89–90, 95
mirrors for princes
Edwards, Paul
216–217
Egypt
diffusion of idolatry from (egyptogenesis)
in general
107, 116, 123, 135–137
to Asia
126–135
Cartari on
108
Kircher on
128–129
to the New World
111–112, 116–124, 117, 279–280
as origin of Greek culture
111
egyptogenesis see under Egypt
Eknāth
in general
47
Islam and
48–49
literary corpus of
47–48, 49
Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād
Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Ireland
93
Eloge historique de Richard Simon, Prête (Bruzen de la Martinière)
251
emotional therapies
241
encompassment, in general
1–2
Engelbrecht, Martin
242n20, 242n21
England
88–96
anti-Spanish sentiment in
91–92
Catholics in
14, 52
Morocco and
93
Protestants in
14, 95–96
religious tolerance in
96
Spanish culture in
90
Great Britain
English language
translations/versions of
Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde in
245–246
Historia verdadera del rey d. Rodrigo in
88–96
enslavement see slavery/enslavement
Epicurus
177
Epistola invectiva (Orobio de Castro)
32
Equiano, Olaudah
215, 227–231
Erpenious, Thomas
68
El Escorial’s Royal Library
74, 80
Essai sur les préjugés (Dumarsais)
196
Essay upon the Civil Wars in France (Voltaire)
246n26
estrangement, as literary device
259
ethnocentrism
267, 270, 278, 284
Europe Observed: Multiple Gazes in Early Modern Encounters (eds. Chatterjee & Hawes)
10n19
Europe/Europeans
on Chinese culture
147–148
on Chinese race
146–147
encounters between Amerindians and
272–275
Orientalism in
79–80
reception in
under specific countries
of Historia verdadera
69
of Morisco works
68–69
Evangelio de S. Bernabé
68, 96–97
Evans-Pritchard, E. E.
1
Evreux, Yves d’
281
excommunication (herem)
37
Exodus
225, 228
falsifications
69–71
Faría, Joan de
70
Father/Mother (Fu/mu)
153
Ferroverde, Filippo
109, 119, 127
fetishes/feitico/fetisso
218–219
fiction see novels
Fischel, Roy
50nn16–17
Fishman, Talya
x–xi, 6–7, 19–39, 270
Fleury, Claude
256
forced conversions
51–52, 62
conversos; Moriscos
Forgetting Faith? (Karremann, Zwierlein & Groote)
11–12
Franciscan order
151–152
freedom of thought
186
Frelinghuysen, Theodorus Jacobus
217
French language
75–85
Frere, Daniel
91
Frérét, Nicolas
196
Fukasawa, Katsumi
12, 15
Fu/mu (Father/Mother)
153
Galilei, Galileo
104
Ganesh (Ganissone)
126
García-Arenal, Mercedes
70
Garimberti, Girolamo
103
gazes, use of term
10n19
Gerakis, Constantinos (Phaulkon, Constance)
171
Gernet, Jacques
criticism of
on Jesuit order
152–153, 154–155
on Ricci
155, 156
Gervaise, Nicolas
172, 173
Gingrich, Andre
1–3, 267
Ginzburg, Carlo
235–236, 256, 269–270
Giraldi, Giglio Gregorio
107
Girardot, Norman
164
Gitlitz, David
29
Glei, Reinhold F.
4
God (Tianzhu)
159–160
God, as Fu/mu (Father/Mother)
153
gods/deities
Asian
126–135, 147
Chinese
147
Greco-Roman
107
under specific gods/deities
Indian
126, 127–128
Japanese
126–127, 129, 130–131
Mexican
116–124
Gold Coast (Ghana)
218–219
Gomes, Manuel
51
Gordon, Thomas
2, 196, 238–239, 241n18, 244, 259n62
Husen, Jeremiah van
Gordon Riots (1780)
13
Gouvea, Antonio de
158
grammars, of selfing/othering
1–3
Grammars of Identity/Alterity: A Structural Approach (Baumann & Gringrich)
1–3, 267
Granada
67, 69–70, 72, 93
Granada Venegas, Pedro
70
Gravelot, Hubert-François
246n26
Great Britain
242
the Great Ultimate (Taiji)
155–156
Greco-Roman gods/deities
107
under specific gods/deities
Griffiths, Ralph
241n18, 257n57
Grignion, Charles
246n26
Grimm, Friedrich Melchior
193–194, 197–198, 207
Gronniosaw, James Albert Ukawsaw
215, 216–218, 221
Groote, Inga Mai
11–12
Gualdo, Paolo
103, 104, 116
Guanyin (Kannon)
126, 127, 130, 131, 133
Las guerras civiles de Granada (Pérez de Hita)
81
Guinea
257
Gulliver’s Travels (Swift)
242n20
Gurmendi, Francisco
97
al-Hajari, Ahmad b. Qasim (Bejarano, Diego)
68
Hakluyt, Richard
92
Haklytus Posthumus, or Purchas his Pilgrimes (Purchas)
148
halos
130, 133
HaMeiri, Menahem
23–24
Hawes, Clement
10n19
Hazard, Paul
175
Heaven (Tian)
155, 159–160
Hebrew Bible
36n59
hell, irrelevance of
249n33
Helvétius, Claude Adrien
194
Henriade (Voltaire)
246n26
herem (excommunication)
37
heresy
26–27, 34n57, 209
heterodoxy; idolatry
Herodotus
111
heroes, construction of
82, 88–89, 90, 93, 95, 96, 97
heterodoxy
169–170, 175, 179, 180, 182, 209
heresy; radicalism
Hinduism
idolatry in
views in Discurso on
57–59
views in Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād on
55–56
Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād (Hindi-Muslim Conversation; Eknāth)
in general
47
on Hindu idolatry
55–56
mutual understanding in
64
on religious co-existence
49–50
silencing the other in
63–64
Hirschel, Nathan (fictional character)
242, 243
Histoire de la conqueste d’Espagne par les Mores, composé en arabe par Abulcacim Tariff Abentarique … (Luna; transl. Le Roux)
79, 80
Histoire des deux conquestes d’Espagne par les Mores (Luna; transl. Lobineau)
83–85
Histoire naturelle, civile, et ecclesiastique de l’empire du Japon (Kaempfer; transl. Des Maizeaux)
173
Histoire naturelle et politique du royaume de Siam (Gervaise)
172, 173
Histoire veritable contenant la vie de Iacob Almançor, Roy d’Arabie, qui conquist le Royuame d’Espagne sur le Roy Dom Roderic (Luna; transl. Vieux-Maisons)
75
Historia de los bandos de los Zegríes y Abencerrages, caballeros moros de Granada (Pérez de Hita)
71
Historia dei Riti Ebraici (Modena)
32
Historia del Regno de’ Goti nella Spagna (Rogatis)
87
Historia della perdita e riacquisto della Spagna occupata da Mori (Rogatis)
87
Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España (Díaz del Castillo)
78
Historia verdadera del rey d. Rodrigo (Luna)
in general
69, 96
Agricoletti’s use of
85–86
Almanzor in see Almanzor, Jacob
classification of
78, 80–81, 83–84, 88
criticism of
74, 97
defence of
79, 80
English translations/versions of
88–96
by Ashley
88–90
dedicated to Duke of Berwick
94–95
by Raleigh
91–92
as falsification
71, 97
French translations of
75–85
by Le Roux
79, 80, 83, 94
by Lobineau
83–85
by Obeilh, François d’
76–77
by Vieux-Maisons
75
Italian versions of
85–88
by Agricoletti
85–87
by Rogatis
87
marginal notes in
73
Moriscos’ integration in
72
Muslim conquest in
71–72
prologue of
73
religious ambivalence in
73
success of
74, 97
as true history
73–74
Luna, Miguel de; novels
history, differences between novels and
83–84, 85–86, 88, 97
History of a Voyage in the Land of Brazil (Léry)
275
History of England (Gordon)
245
The History of the Conquest of Spain by the Moors (unknown)
94
The History of the World (Raleigh)
92
Hohenburg, Hans Georg Herwart von
123
Holbach, Paul-Henri Thiry, Baron d’
in general
191–192
on atheism
197, 199, 202–203
authorship of
192–197, 198
on Confucianism
205–206
editing/translating by
195–196
on Islam
207
on Judaism
206–207
on religious otherness
208–209
on religious tolerance
209–210
salon of
192–193
works of
‘L’abbé et le rabbin’
207
Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou examination des principes et des effets de la religion chrétienne see Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou examination des principes et des effets de la religion chrétienne
Lettres à Eugénie
202–203
Théologie portative
208–209
mention of
278
Homem, Antonio
30
Homoyoca (Hometeutle)
116–120, 117
Hormaza, Raymondo (Harris, Raymond)
228
Horstmann, Johannes Heinrich
12–13
Horus
117, 135
Huet, Pierre-Daniel
78, 81, 82, 164
human actions, rewards or punishments for
176–179
humanism, basic humanity in
148
Huntingdon, Selina Hastings, Countess of
223
Husen, Jeremiah van (fictional character)
caricatural reduction of
241–242, 244, 244
characterisations of
240
predictions of
239
Swift and
240
identity, alterity and
1–3, 267, 278, 281, 284
idolatry
antiquarian discourse on
in general
137–138, 279
by Cartari
107–108
by Kircher
128–129
by Pignoria on see Imagini delli dei de gl’antichi di Vicenzo Cartari; Seconda Parte (of Imagini delli dei de gl’antichi di Vicenzo Cartari)
De Bry on
115
diffusion from Egypt of
in general
107, 111–112, 116, 123, 135–137
to Asia
126–135
Cartari on
108
Kircher on
128–129
to New World
111–112, 116–124, 117, 279–280
in Hinduism
views in Discurso on
57–59
views in Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād on
55–56
illustrations of
109, 109
in Islam, views in Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād on
56–57
as religion in absence of guidance
280
as satanic ruse
121
gods/deities
images as evidence
7, 104, 106–107, 110–111, 114–116, 123–124, 126, 128–129, 136–138
imaginative diversions
241
Imagini con la Spositione de i Dei de gli Antichi (Cartari)
in general
105
on idolatry
107–108
illustrations in
110
success of
107
Imagini delli dei de gl’antichi di Vicenzo Cartari (Pignoria)
astral cults in
109
illustrations in
109–110, 109
influences of travel literature on
116
new editions of
138
Pignoria’s annotation of
109–111
Seconda Parte of see Seconda Parte
In Jerusalem, oder über religiöse Macht und Judentum (Mendelssohn)
37–38
Incarnation
33, 156
Incas
279
The Independent Whig (periodical)
196
India
gods/deities of
126, 127–128
religions of
255
India occidentalis (De Bry)
112–115, 113
India orientalis (De Bry)
112–115, 114
Inquisition
254
Institutiones Divinae (Lactantius)
108
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself (Equiano)
227–231
interfaith relations
12
Isis
135
Islam/Muslims
conversions to
50
conversions to Christianity of see Moriscos
d’Holbach on
207
idolatry in
56–57
Jewish thought on
23–24
Qur’an
Israel, Jonathan
164–165
Israel, Menasseh ben
36
L’istoria spagnuola overo Il Celimauro
85
Italian language
85–88
James I and VI, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
89
James II and VII, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
94, 96
Janārdan
48, 50
Japanese gods/deities
126–127, 127, 129, 130, 131, 132, 134, 135
Jasper, Nikolas
4
Jesuit order
accommodationist stance of
128, 134, 150, 259
in Brazil
280
in China
148–150, 152–153, 154–155
humanist education of
147
in India
51
influences on Confucian Christians
156–163
literature of
126–127, 133, 134, 148, 164–165
mission strategy of
in general
128, 148–150, 152
criticism of Gernet on
152–153, 154–155
in Siam
171
Jesus Christ
33, 241
Jews
campaigns to judaise Christians by
33
on Christianity
23–24, 33–36, 270
confessionalisation and
19–39
conversion of see conversos
on creeds
23–27
depictions of
240–241, 242, 243, 244, 244
on Islam
23–24
naturalisation of
242
Judaism
João III, King of Portugal
50–51
John the Baptist
60
Jones, William
5n14
journalism, philosophic
183
Judaism
African customs and
229–231, 257
building of creeds in
21, 22, 24–27
ceremonies in
250–252
civic emancipation and
38–39
d’Holbach on
206–207
practice and belief in
27–29, 31–32
religionalisation of
36–39
salvific power of
31
Hebrew Bible; Jews
Jupiter
116
Kaempfer, Engelbert
173
Kannon (Avalokitesvara, Guanyin)
126, 127, 130, 131, 133
Kaplan, Yosef
20–21
Karaites
250
Karremann, Isabel
11–12
Käte Hamburger Kolleg (KHK)
1, 10
Kellner, Menachem
25–27
Kircher, Athanasius
128–129
knowledge
89–90
Kol Sakhal (Modena)
32n46
Kołakowski, Leszek
11
Kolbe, Peter
258n60
Koning, Wilhelm
242n20, 244n21
the Konkan
50–55
Kosambi, Damodar Dharmanand
57n43
Kouduo richao (Daily Discussions; Zürcher)
153–154, 155, 156, 157n41
Krisṭapurāṇa see Discurso sobre a vinda de Jesu Christo
La Cave, François Morellon de
247
La Créquinière, M. de
235–236, 255, 256
La Fayette, Madame de
81–82
La Loubère, Simon de
172
La Rochefoucauld, François de
81
La Vega, Garcilaso de
279
Lactantius, Lucius Caelius
108
Lafitau, Joseph-François
256n53
Laneau, Louis
173
L’Antiquité dévoilée (Boulanger)
198
lapis manalis
122
laws (dat/datot)
23
laws (nimos/nimus)
23
Le Gobien, Charles
270
Le Roux, Monsieur
79, 80, 83, 94
Le Roy, Loys
89–90
Lead Books of Sacromonte
69–71
Legge, James
164
Leo of Modena
250
Léry, Jean de
275, 276
Lestringant, Frank
275
Letter from Rome (Middleton)
253
‘Letter to a Dissenter’ (Savile)
96
Letters (Sancho)
226
Letters (Sterne)
226
Letters to Serena (Toland)
196
Lettres à Eugénie (d’Holbach)
202–203
Lettres chinoises (d’Argens)
183–187
Lettres édifiantes et curieuses
148
Lettres juives (d’ Argens)
183
Lettres juives (d’Argens)
184–185
Lettres Persannes (Montesquieu)
2
Leviathan, oder: über Religion in Rücksicht des Judentums (Ascher)
38
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
267, 272, 273
Li, Jiubiao
153, 157n41
Li, Jiugong (Thomas)
157–158, 160–163
Shensi lu
Li, Qisu see Li, Jiugong (Thomas)
Li, Xiyan
159–160
Li, Yifen
157, 158
Li xiu yijian (Li, Yifen)
157n42
Lian, Xi
163–165
The Life and Death of Mahomet, The Conquest of Spaine, Together with the Rysing and Ruine of the Sarazen Empire (Raleigh)
91–92
Lilliputian Humorists (Bowles)
242n20, 244
linguistic incompatibility
152–154
literacy
216–217
literature
about travels
112–116, 124, 148, 172, 258
chivalric
78, 83
of Confucian Christians see under Confucian Christians
of missionaries see missionary literature
of Moriscos
68–69
of people of African descent see African authors
on Siam
172–173
Mœurs et Coutumes literature
Liu, Yunde (Verbiest, Blaise)
159
Lobineau, Guy Alexis
83–85
Locke, John
14
Lockman, John
9, 236n2, 245–246, 247, 260–261
Lord, Henry
246n26
Loubère, Simon de la
176, 178, 179
Louis, Grand Dauphine of France (son of Louis XIV)
76–77, 95
Louis XIII, King of France and Navarre
75
Louis XIV, King of France
76
Louis XV, King of France
76
Louvain treatise
133, 134
Loyola, Martin Ignacio
147n6
Lucifer
120
Luna, Miguel de
in general
96
as falsifier
69, 70–71
Le Roux on
80
Lead Books of Sacromonte and
69, 70
works of see Historia verdadera del rey d. Rodrigo
Lunyu (Analects; Confucius)
155
Luzzatto, Simone
37n65
Madagascar
257
Madonna (Mary, Virgin)
133–134, 147
Magen VaHerev (Shield and Sword; Modena)
33–34
Mahipati
48
Maimonides, Moses (Rambam)
22–27, 324
Malipiero, Luigi
119
Malipiero, Ottaviano
119
Malvezzi, Virgilio
90–91
Manelfi, Peter
34n53
Maniglier, Patrice
272
Manjushri
130
al-Mansur see Almanzor, Jacob
Mantua rulers
104
Marana, Giovanni Paolo
259
Marāṭhī bhakti tradition
47–48, 49
Maria Anna of Austria
90
Marianna Islands
270
Márquez Villanueva, F.
72
marranos see conversos
Marsollier, Jacques
254
Mary (Virgin, Madonna)
133–134, 147
Mascarenhas, Pedro
51
Masoretes
80
Maxims of State (Savile)
95–96
Mayáns y Ciscar, Gregorio
82
Mendelssohn, Moses
37–38
Mensa Isiaca
104, 117, 118
metempsychosis doctrine
249n33
Métraux, Alfred
282
Mexican religions
ceremonies in
249n34, 252
deities in
116–124, 117, 121
Micah, prophet
231
Middleton, Conyers
253
Miller, Peter
135
Milton, John
93
miniature shrines (zushi)
129–130
Minuti, Rolando
xi, 8, 169–187, 269
Miquitlantecatle
120
Mirabaud, Jean-Baptiste de
196
mirrors for princes
72, 97
royal education
missionaries
activities of
in Africa
218–220
otherness and see religious otherness
in Siam
171
influence of China on
163–164
literature of see missionary literatureunder specific orders
missionary literature
of Jesuit order
126–127, 133, 134, 148, 164–165, 258–259
travel literature
Modena, Leone
32, 33–35
Modena, Solomon
34–35
Les mœurs des Israelites (Fleury)
256
Mœurs des sauvages amériquains comparées aux mœurs des premiers temps (Lafitau)
256n53
Mœurs et Coutumes literature
112
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de
4, 147, 275, 276–277, 284
Montalto, Elijah
32n46
Montausier, Charles de Sainte-Maure, Duke de
76, 78
Montesquieu, Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de
2, 183
Monthly Journal
257n57
morality
161, 201–203, 211–212, 238–239
Mordecai, Abraham ben
244
Moriscos
in general
67–68, 96, 270
integration of
72
literary output of
68–69
Morocco
68, 92–93
Morteira, Saul Levi
31–32, 35
Moses, prophet
232
Muhammad, Prophet
90
Mumford, Robert
220
Mundus Novus (Vespucci)
272–273
Muslims see Islam/Muslims
Mussard, Pierre
253
‘Mutual Bitterness and Persecution amongst Christians, How Repugnant to the Gospel, and How Shocking to a Rational Pagan’ (Gordon)
259n62
mysteries, in religions
249
mythographies
107
Mythologiae (Conti)
107
Naples Rebellion (1647)
86
Narai the Great, King of Ayutthaya
170–171, 173–175, 184
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa: But Resident above Sixty Years in the United States of America. Related by Himself (Smith)
220–223
A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, an African Prince, As Related by Himself (Gronniosaw)
216–218
nation states, religion and
36–38
Native Americans see Amerindian peoples
nāyakas (servants)
58–59
Nazarenus (Toland)
68
Neapolitan aristocracy
86–87
Near East, use of term
5n14
negotiation
15
Nestorian Christian
151
New Christians see conversos
New History of England (Lockman)
245
New Testament
36n59
New World
diffusion of idolatry from Egypt to
in general
111–112, 116, 279–280
Mexican gods/deities and
116–124, 117
discovery of
272
European encounters with Amerindians of
272–284
religion in
of Incas
279
Mexican ceremonies
249n34, 252
Mexican gods/deities
116–124, 117
of Tupinamba
274, 276–277, 278, 279–282
Nextepeua
120
Nijenrode, Cornelis van
172
nimos/nimus (laws)
23
Noahides
23
Nomologia (Aboab)
31
non-Christians, salvation of
149–150, 156
Nostra Aetate declaration (1965)
45–46
La nouvelle Héloïse (Rousseau)
194
Nouvelles de la République des Lettres (periodical)
175–176
novels
definition/redefinition of
82–83
differences between history and
83–84, 85–86, 88, 97
heroes in
82
origins of
81, 82, 83
Obeilh, François d’
76–77
Oedipus Aegyptiacus (Kircher)
128–129
‘Of Cannibals’ (Montaigne)
275
ofuda (votive images)
129
Ohev Mishpat (Lover of Justice; Rashbatz)
26–27
Or Adonai (Light of the Lord; Crescas)
26
Orientalism
68, 70, 74, 79–80, 83–84
orientalization
1–2
Orobio de Castro, Isaac
32
Ortelius, Abraham
111
Osiris
117, 118, 118
otherness/othering/others
in general
1, 5–6
grammars of
1–3
identity and
1–3, 267, 278, 281, 284
looking through the eyes of
268–271, 275
racial/cultural, in China
146–148
religious see religious otherness
silencing the
60–62, 63–64
outsiders
226–227
Oviedo, Gonzalo Fernándes de
273
pagodes
126
Pantoja, Diego
146
Partridge, John
240
Pascal, Michael Henry
227
Passions of the Soul (Descartes)
241
Paul, Apostle
228–229, 231
Paul VI, Pope
45
Peiresc, Nicolas Fabri de
104, 124, 135
Pelayo, King of Asturias
87, 88
Pellicer, José
74
Pender, Stephen
241
Pentateuch
232
Pérez de Hita, Ginés
71, 81, 85, 93
perspectivism
3, 8, 12, 200, 282–284
Pfeffel, Johann Andreas (the Elder)
242n20
Pfeffelfiguren
242n20
phalaśruti
54
Phaulkon, Constance (Gerakis, Constantinos)
171
Phetracha, King of Siam
171
Philip II, King of Spain
69, 80, 92, 95
Philip III, King of Spain
90
philosophic journalism
183
Phoebus (Apollo)
126
Picart, Bernard see Cérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde
Pignoria, Lorenzo
biography of
104
comparative method of
123–124, 129, 136, 137
correspondents of
104, 124, 135
effect of Japanese figures on
132, 133, 137
explanatory models for religious otherness of
107
letters to Gualdo
103, 116, 119, 128
theological reference system of
120–121
works of
De Servis
105
Vetustissimae tabulae Aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum simulachris coelatae explicatio
104–105
Imagini delli dei de gl’antichi di Vicenzo Cartari; Seconda Parte (of Imagini delli dei de gl’antichi di Vicenzo Cartari)
The Pillars of Priestcraft and Orthodoxy Shaken (ed. Barron)
241n18
Pinelli, Giovanvincenzo
104
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (Wheatley)
223
Pope, Alexander
245
Popkin, Richard
270
Porto Rico
273
Poxie Ji (1640)
155
praeparatio evangelica
107, 122, 150
praying
247
predictions
239
prefaces
154–155
Prevost, Nicholas
245–246
Priestianity
241n18
Protestant Church/Protestants
Cérémonies and
182, 253
in England
14, 95–96
formulations of belief by
21n7
literacy and
216
missionaries of
163–164, 275
Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference (Chakrabarty)
235
‘Provincializing the World: Europeans, Indians, Jews (1704)’ (Ginzburg)
235
The Public Advertiser (newspaper)
228
punishment, for human actions
176–179
purāṇas
53–55
Purchas, Samuel
124, 148
Qaraites
27
Quaneuoa
133, 134
Quaque, Philip
215, 218–220
Quetzalcoatl
121–122, 121
Qur’an
82, 90
Rabad III (Abraham ben David of Posquières)
27
Rabbanites
27
racial otherness, in China
146–147
Radical Enlightenment
165, 170
radicalism
definition of
169
in Europe
169–170
Siamese religion and
heterodoxy
in Cérémonies
179–182
in Lettres chinoises
183–187
Raleigh, Carew
91
Raleigh, Walter
91–92
Rambam (Maimonides, Moses)
22–27, 324
Ramsay, James
228
Rapin, Paul de
245
Rashbatz (Duran, Shimon ben Zemah)
26–27, 30
Rawlinson, Frank
164
Reinhard, Wolfgang
38n69
Relation du voyage (De Bourges)
174
Relation sur l’inquisition de Goa (Dellon)
254
religion(s)
in general
10–11
in Africa see under African peoples
in Asia see under India; Siam
commonalities between
185, 236, 248–254, 255–261
conformity and
106, 112, 124, 128, 134, 136, 138, 235–237, 249–250
converts/conversions see conversos; converts/conversions; Moriscos
definitions of
204, 208–209, 278
d’Holbach’s views on see Le Christianisme dévoilé, ou examination des principes et des effets de la religion chrétienne
increasing interest in
11–12
intolerance and see religious intolerance
morality and
238–239
mutual dependency of
10, 211
mysteries in
249
nation state and
36–38
natural history of
248
in New World see under New World
tolerance and see religious tolerance
of Tupinamba
274, 276–277, 278, 279–282
use of term
10
Western conception of
281
religious education
216–217
religious intolerance
13–15, 175, 186
religious tolerance
religious otherness
in general
145, 268, 278, 281
cannibalism and
274
caricatural representation of
237
in China
145–146
explanatory models for
107
d’Holbach on
208–209
religious tolerance
in general
13–15
d’Argens on
184–185
Bernard on
237–238
in China
175
in England
96
d’Holbach on
209–210
in Siam
171, 173–176
religious intolerance
Rémy, Christophe
76
revenge
277
revolutions, interest in
83–84, 90–91, 95
rewards, for human actions
176–179
Ricci, Matteo
148–149, 155
Ríos, Pedro de los
120
Il Rodrigo (Agricoletti)
85
Rodrigo, Visigothic king
72, 74, 87, 88
Rodrigues, Diogo
51
Rodríguez de Montalvo, Garci
78
Rodríguez Mediano, Fernando
xi, 7, 67–97, 270
Roetz, Heiner
4n11
Rogatis, Bartolomeo de
87
Roman Catholic Church/Catholics
adaptation of Cérémonies by
186–187
ceremonies in
251, 252–253
in England
14, 52
formulations of belief by
21n7
interfaith relations of
45–47
missions/missionaries of
accommodatio and
46–47, 128, 134, 150, 259
Dominican order
151–152
Franciscan order
151–152
Jesuit order see Jesuit order
Roman Catholic Foreign Missions Society
171
tolerance for
96
Rondinelli, Francesco
88
Rooden, Peter van
32n46
Rosh Amanah (Abravanel)
26n24
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
192–193, 194
royal education
75–78, 89–90, 95
mirrors for princes
Royal Library (El Escorial)
74, 80
Rubiés, Joan-Pau
57n41, 252n41
Ruderman, David
34n54
Rule, Paul A.
xi–xii, 6, 7–8, 145–166
Said, Edward
1
Sainte-Maure, Charles de
76, 78
Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de
278
Salcete
50–51, 53–54
salvation, of non-Christians
149–150
samādhān
63
Samaritans
250
Sancho, Ignatius
14, 215, 226–227
Sancho, William
227
Saperstein, Marc
29
śāstras
53–55
Satan
120
satanic ruse
107, 121
satire
anti-Semitic
241–242
dwarves used in
242n20, 243, 244
emotional therapies and
241
savages/savagery
257, 267–268, 273, 275–278
cannibalism
Savile, George, First Marquess of Halifax
95–96
The Scheme of Literal Prophecy Considered (Collins)
196
Schilling, Heinz
19
Schouten, Joost
172
Scito te ipsum (Know Yourself; Abelard)
31
Scotin, Gerard, II
246n26
Scripture Researches on the Licitness of the Slave Trade (Harris)
228
Seconda Parte (of Imagini delli dei de gl’antichi di Vicenzo Cartari) (Pignoria)
in general
106–107
on diffusion of idolatry from Egypt
in general
111–112, 116, 135–137
Asian gods/deities and
126–135
Mexican gods/deities and
116–124
heterogeneity of
136–137
illustrations in
in general
136
of an Arhat
132
of Asian gods/deities
130
of Constantine follis
123
of Homoyoca
117
of Japanese figures
125, 129–130, 131, 132, 134
Jesuit writing as basis for
126–127
of Kannon
127, 131
of Mexican gods
119–121, 121
of Osiris
118
provenance of
119, 123, 129–130
Peiresc on
124
Tozzi on
135–136
Sefer HaIqqarim (Book of Principles; Albo)
26
segmentation, in general
1–3
Segrais, Jean Regnault de
81
Servan, Joseph-Michel-Antoine
198
Seznec, Jean
119
Sharp, Granville
228
Sheehan, Jonathan
252n41, 254
Shensi lu (Night Thoughts; Li, Jiugong)
in general
162–163
on human relationships
161–162
on judices against Christians
162
on morality
161
originality of
160–161
prefaces and introductions to
158–160
proof-readers, revisors and censors of
158
publishing details of
158
on treatment of women
162
Shirley, Walter
216, 217–218
Siam
foreign relations of
170–171
literature on
172–173
missionary activities in
171–172
missionary/diplomatic relations in
174–175
religion in
in general
169, 170–171
d’Argens on
184–187
Bayle on
175–179
Bernard on
178–182
religious tolerance in
171, 173–176
revolution of
1688 in 171
Siera Leone
228
Sigalion
126–127
silencing the other
in Hiṇdu-Turk Saṁvād
63–64
in Stephens’s Discurso
60–62, 64
Simon, Richard
250–251
Singularités de la France Antarctique (Thevet)
273
Sino-theology
160
Six Discourses on the Miracles of our Saviour (Woolston)
196
Skafish, Peter
282–284
slavery/enslavement
Christianity and
in general
215–216
Cugoano on
224
Equiano on
228–229
Sancho on
226–227
Smith on
222
Wheatley on
225
as theological fortunate event
223, 224
Smedley, Jonathan
240
Smith, Oliver
221
Smith, Venture
215, 220–223
social discipline
19–20
Société des Missions-Étrangères (Roman Catholic Foreign Missions Society)
171
Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG)
218
Socinians
35–36
Il sogno paraninfo: istoria scitica (Agricoletti)
85
Sommona Codom
176–177, 179
Spain see Moriscos
Spanish Match (1623)
90
SPG (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel)
218
Spinoza, Baruch
22, 194
Standaert, Nicolas
157
Starobinski, Jean
201
Steele, Richard
240
Stephens, Thomas
47, 51–52
Discurso sobre a vinda de Jesu Christo
Sterne, Laurence
226
Stroumsa, Guy G.
2, 5n14, 248n29
Stuart/Steward, John see Cugoano, Quobna Ottobah
Stuczynski, Claude
37n64
Stünkel, Knut Martin
xii, 6, 8, 191–212, 278
Suarez de Peralta, Juan
279
subjective eye
4–5
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
270
supreme Being
181
Swift, Jonathan (Bickerstaff, Isaac)
240
Synagoga Judaica (Buxtorf)
32
Système de la Nature (De Mirabaud)
196
Tabula Isaica see Mensa Isiaca
Tachard, Guy
172, 174–175, 176
Taiji (the Great Ultimate)
155–156
talking book, trope of
216–218
Tarantino, Giovanni
xii, 9, 235–261, 279
The Tatler (magazine)
240
Taubman, Matthew
94
Tertullian
120, 279
Théologie portative (d’Holbach)
208–209
theory of unveiling (théorie du dévoilement)
201
Theravada Buddhism
174
Thevet, André
273, 275, 276, 280–281
Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species (Cugoano)
224–225
Tian (Heaven)
155, 159–160
Tianzhu (God)
159–160
Tianzhu Shiyi (Ricci)
155, 156
‘To a Louse’ (Burns)
268
Toland, John
68, 196, 236n2
Topazio, Virgil
191, 193n6
Tozzi, Pietro Paolo
116, 135–136
transgressors/transgressions
24, 28–29
translocality
3–4
Tratado da Verdade da Lei dei Moisés (Morteira)
31–32, 35
travel literature
112–116, 124, 148, 172, 258, 275
Léry, Jean de; missionary literature; Thevet, André
Trenchard, John
196, 253
Trigault, Nicolas
128
Trinity
33, 35, 118, 153–154
truchmen
275–276
A True Account of a Revelation Lately Discover’d to Jeremiah van Husen (attr. Gordon)
239
Tukārām
63–64
Tupinamba
273–278, 279, 280–282, 284
United East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie; VOC)
172
universal spirit
181–182
unveiling, theory of
201
Urrea, Diego de
72
Usque, Samuel
34–35n57
Valignano, Alessandro
146, 148n9
Van Kley, Dale K.
237n3
Varie Figure Gobbi (Callot)
242
Vassa, Gustavus see Equiano, Olaudah
Vaticanus
3738 (Codex Ríos) 119
Vaz, Miguel
50–51
vengeance
277
Venus
122
Verbiest, Blaise (Liu, Yunde)
159
Verbiest, Ferdinand
159
Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC; United East India Company)
172
Vespucci, Amerigo
272–273
Vetustissimae tabulae Aeneae sacris Aegyptiorum simulachris coelatae explicatio (Pignoria)
104–105
Vida de Miguel de Cervantes (Mayáns y Ciscar)
82
La vie du roy Almansor (Luna; transl. Obeilh)
76–78
Vieux-Maisons, Gilles de Rainssant, Sieur de
75
Virgin (Mary, Madonna)
133–134, 147
Viswanathan, Gauri
5–6
Vita del Re Iacob (Cirfranci)
87–88
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo
270–272, 274, 283
Vliet, Jeremias van
172
vocalization, of Hebrew text in Bible
80
Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet)
183, 186, 195, 199, 246n26
votive images (ofuda)
129
Voyages de Siam (Tachard)
172, 174–175
Walpole, Robert
241n18
Walsham, Alexandra
13
Wandel, Lee Palmer
4–5
Wandering Jew
240–241
Wang, Yangming
150
Wars of Religion (1562–98; France)
275
wen (culture)
149
Wheatley, Phillis
215, 220–223, 225–226, 227
Whitefield, George
223
whiteness
257–258n58, 258n60
women, treatment of
162
Woolston, Thomas
196
Wyss-Giacosa, Paola von
xii–xiii, 7, 103–139, 279
Xavier, Francis
146
Xinxue (School of Mind)
150
Xu, Guangqi
151
Yan, Zanhua
158
Yzpuzteque
120
Zachariah
60
Zayde, histoire espagnole (La Fayette)
81–82
Zelliot, Eleanor
49
Zevi, Sabbatai
239
Zhongyong (Doctrine of the Mean)
160
Zhu, Xi
160
Ziegenbalg, Bartholomäus
258n60
Zoroastrianism
249
Zürcher, Erik
153, 157
zushi (miniature shrines)
129–130
Zwierlein, Cornel
11–12