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Title Knowledge and religion in early modern Europe : studies in honor of Michael Heyd / edited by Asaph Ben-Tov, Yaacov Deutsch, Tamar Herzig
Published Boston : Brill, 2013

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Series Brill's studies in intellectual history ; vol. 219
Brill's studies in intellectual history ; vol. 219.
Contents Acknowledgements; Note on Contributors; Introduction; Part One Religion and Knowledge in the Age of the Reformation; Eruditio Ancilla Reformationis: Theodore Beza and the Uses of History in the Icones; General Confession and Self-Knowledge in Early Modern Catholicism; Part Two Medical and Scientific Knowledge; Imagination, Passions, and the Production of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe: From Lipsius to Descartes; Love for All: The Medical Discussion of Lovesickness in Jacob Zahalon's The Treasure of Life (Otzar ha-Hayyim); Part Three Knowledge of Non-Christian Religions
Religious Rituals and Ethnographic Knowledge: Sixteenth-Century Descriptions of CircumcisionIslam, Eastern Christianity, and Superstition according to Some Early Modern English Observers; Pagan Gods in Late Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century German Universities: A Sketch; Part Four Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment; Between Representation and Impersonation: Rousseau on Theatre and Politics; The Invention of the Counter-Enlightenment: The Case for the Defense; Afterword: The Changing Contours of Early Modern Intellectual History; Michael Heyd: Selected Bibliography
Summary This collection of essays examines interplays of knowledge and religion in early modern thought. Spanning from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, it considers varied formations of knowledge and religion, knowledge about religion(s) and irreligious knowledge in early modern Europe
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Knowledge, Theory of (Religion) -- History
Knowledge, Theory of -- Europe -- History
REFERENCE -- Questions & Answers.
Knowledge, Theory of
Knowledge, Theory of (Religion)
Europe
Genre/Form History
Gelegenheidsuitgaven (vorm)
Form Electronic book
Author Ben-Tov, Asaph, editor
Deutsch, Yaacov, editor
Herzig, Tamar, editor
Heyd, Michael, honouree
ISBN 1299467989
9781299467989
9789004231481
900423148X