Bernard Picart and the First Global Vision of Religion

By: Lynn Hunt (Editor), Margaret Jacob (Editor), Wijnand Mijnhardt (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 February 2010 | Edition Number 1

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In an era of intense religious conflict in Europe and ongoing exploration of the lands beyond Europe, Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–37) set a new agenda for thinking about faith and provided a lasting visual template for representing the world’s religions. In the work’s seven massive volumes, Jean Frederic Bernard and the renowned engraver Bernard Picart invited readers to view religions and their institutions as cultural practices.
Bernard Picart and The First Global Vision of Religion approaches this much-cited but little-studied work from a variety of angles. Its fifteen scholarly essays examine Bernard and Picart’s authorial and artistic strategies, the handling of religious difference in Ceremonies et coutumes religieuses, and the cultural context that fostered the creation of one of the most influential works of comparative religion ever published.

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Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Authorial and Artistic Practices
Jean Frederic Bernard as Author and Publisher	p. 17
Bernard Picart's Dutch Connections: Family Trouble, the Amsterdam Theater, and the Business of Engraving	p. 35
The Collegiants: A Small Presence in the Dutch Republic, a Large Metaphor for the Book	p. 59
Reproduction and Authenticity in Bernard Picart's Impostures Innocentes	p. 75
The Impostures Innocentes: Bernard Picart's Defense of the Professional Engraver	p. 105
The Representation of Difference: A Global Approach
Picart, Bernard, Hermes, and Muhammad (Not Necessarily in That Order)	p. 139
Persian Pictures: Art, Documentation, and Self-Reflection in Jean Frederic Bernard and Bernard Picart's Representations of Islam	p. 169
Monsieur Picart and the Gentiles of India	p. 197
Bernard Picart on China: "Curious" Discourses and Images Taken Principally from Jesuit Sources	p. 215
Chinese Idols and Religious Art: Questioning Difference in Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses	p. 235
Quetzalcoatl's Enlightened City: A Close Reading of Bernard Picart's Engraving of Cholollan/Cholula	p. 251
Illness and Death among Americans in Bernard Picart's Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses	p. 271
The Religious and Intellectual Context of Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses
The Gallican and Jansenist Roots of Jean Frederic Bernard and Bernard Picart's Vision of the Inquisition	p. 291
(Re)Inventing Encyclopedism in the Early European Enlightenment: Connecting Antoine-Augustin Bruzen de La Martinière with the Cérémonies et Coutumes Religieuses	p. 313
The Uses of Comparison: Religions in the Early Eighteenth Century	p. 331
Biographical Notes on Contributors	p. 348
Illustration Credits	p. 350
Index	p. 352
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