- Illustrations
- Introduction: One Book, Two Men, and a New Attitude toward Religion
- I. The World of the Book
- 1. A Marketplace for Religious Ideas
- 2. Bernard Picart: Religious and Artistic Journeys
- 3. Why Holland?
- 4. Jean Frederic Bernard: The Tumultuous Life of a Refugee Publisher
- 5. A Writer’s Mental Universe
- 6. Picart’s Visual Politics
- II. The Book of the World
- 7. Familiarizing Judaism
- 8. Cutting Roman Catholicism Down to Size
- 9. Idolatry: West and East
- 10. Rehabilitating Islam
- 11. Dissent, Deism, and Atheism
- Conclusion: Literary Fortunes
- Appendix A. The Seven Volumes of Religious Ceremonies of the World
- Appendix B. Editions of Religious Ceremonies of the World
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index


The Book That Changed Europe
Picart and Bernard’s Religious Ceremonies of the World
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$40.00 • £32.95 • €36.00
ISBN 9780674049284
Publication Date: 03/31/2010