Knowledge and Profanation (Intersections: Interdiscipinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 63)

Martin Mulsow

ISBN 10: 9004398929 / ISBN 13: 9789004398924

Published by BRILL, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowledge and Profanation (Intersections: Interdiscipinary Studies in Early Modern Culture, 63)
• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004398929
• ISBN 13: 9789004398924
• Binding: hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Knowledge and Profanation offers numerous instances of profoundly religious polemicists profanizing other religions ad majorem gloriam Dei, as well as sincere adherents of their own religion, whose reflective scholarly undertakings were perceived as profanizing transgressions - occasionally with good reason. In the history of knowledge of religion and profanation unintended consequences often play a decisive role. Can too much knowledge of religion be harmful? Could the profanation of a foreign religion turn out to be a double-edged sword? How much profanating knowledge of other religions could be tolerated in a premodern world?
In eleven contributions, internationally renowned scholars analyze cases of learned profanation, committed by scholars ranging from the Italian Renaissance to the early nineteenth century, as well as several antique predecessors.

Contributors are: Asaph Ben-Tov, Ulrich Groetsch, Andreas Mahler, Karl Morrison, Martin Mulsow, Anthony Ossa-Richardson, Wolfgang Spickermann, Riccarda Suitner, John Woodbridge, Azzan Yadin, and Holger Zellentin.

About the Author

Martin Mulsow is professor of intellectual history at the University of Erfurt and director of the Gotha Research Center. He is the author of Prekäres Wissen: Eine andere Ideengeschichte der Frühen Neuzeit (Berlin: 2012) and Enlightenment Underground: Radical Germany, 1680-1720 (Charlottesville: 2015).
Asaph Ben-Tov specializes in the Classical Tradition and Oriental studies in Early Modern Europe. He is the author of Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity: Melanchthonian Scholarship between Universal History and Pedagogy (Leiden: 2009) and is co-editor of Knowledge and Religion in Early Modern Europe: Studies in Honor of Michael Heyd (Leiden: 2013).