‘What was the comparative history of religion in seventeenth-century Europe (and beyond)? Pagan monotheism/Pagan animism, from T’ien to Tylor’
When faced with the spectacular outpouring of seventeenth-century texts that seem to provide something that looks like the comparative history of religions, it is tempting to adopt one of two positions. One is condemnatory: the reduction of these texts to the ‘polemical’ contexts that inspired them....
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Brill
2018
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